Lunch with Maxim

The narrator knocks over a vase of anemones at her table, and Maxim comes to help. He insists she have lunch with him, and she reluctantly agrees. They talk easily, and she tells him about her father and her life. He says she has taken him out of his despondency. He offers to drive her to Monaco to sketch, and she accepts. The lunch lasts an hour and a half, and she feels a bond forming between them.