Ответ:
Употребление времен Present или Past Tense в текстах
I
"But when you meet him?"
"Tonight. He is picking me up in a bar in the Champs Elysées and insists on taking me to Maxim's."
I am having a wonderful time, the best I have had since we came to work in Paris."
"I think you are going out with Jean-Paul tonight?"
"Well, I did start out with him. But, honestly, Petra, he is getting to be really boring, so when I see Carlo giving me the high sign I decided to go with him instead."
"Carlo? It doesn't sound very French."
"It is not. He is Italian. And that is where I am going - to stay in his Palazzo, no less... He is the kind of man I have been looking for all my life... He just swept me off my feet."
"Most of the men you meet seem to sweep you off your feet."
II
At the end of the week, when there was still no telephone call or letter from Sara, Petra waited until Monsieur and Madam Charron went out one evening and the children were safely in bed, then she sneaked into the study, picked up the phone and asked the operator to give her the number of the Palazzo Berini in Venice.
"Hello. Is that Carlo Berini?"
"Yes, I am Count Berini." The voice was authoritative.
"My name is Petra Thornton. We have not met, but I am a friend of Sara's."
