Piano Bar Car, France, 23:00
This sophisticate carriage contains a long bar staffed by a bartender at one end and it opens its doors at 10AM to allow entrance to the Dining Car if need be although it doesn't serve alcohol until midday at which point the bar remains open and staffed until midnight wherein guests can mingle, listen to music, dance, and drink either on stools at the bar or on long couches upholstered in brown that face each other over the central aisle with a polished mahogany coffee table between them and a set of lamps on tables between each couch to provide additional lighting on top of the dim overhead lighting if need be. The couches are quite comfortable and the room is always nicely warm. Oftentimes this carriage is filled with the heady scent of cigarette smoke and ashtrays are plentiful on each table. A bartender works his magic at the bar which stands on one side of the car (closest to the door to the Lounge Car), with a pianist playing piano at the other end of the car alongside a gap about as wide as it is long which is used as an impromptu dance floor on occasion by those enjoying the bar.Nora and George Rimwald quietly rise and leave the smoking car in the direction of the sleeping cars, bidding the Pontarellis a good night.
Durante and Erminia Pontarelli seem to pay little attention to each other. Instead they are watching Magdelena Bartenstein, who nervously sits on her own, looking very forlorn and uncomfortable under the weight of their occasional stares.
Nafy Hijazi, Minoo Hijazi, Waleed Hijazi and Sulamen Hijazi leave the Smoking Car. The little girl yawns cutely as they go.
Charles Gavigan, a gentleman in an expensive suit, sits on a bar stool, talking to Johannes Sprech in German.
Farooqi Al-Rassam sits on a couch furthest away from everyone else, looking up at Kieran.
PRESENT: Charles Gavigan, Farooqi Al-Rassam, Durante Pontarelli, Erminia Pontarelli, Kieran, Magdelena Bartenstein, Johannes Sprech.
