44 Scotland Street. The Prime of Bertie Pollock, Chapter 61: Poetry calls for tea

While official Edinburgh conducted its colourful rituals around the Mercat Cross, on the other side of town, in her coffee bar on Dundas Street, Big Lou, loyal, stout-hearted, dispenser of coffee and bacon rolls to the people of the New Town and such visitors as wandered that way, sat with her new friend, the Singaporean scholar and essayist, Christopher Lin, and talked about the life of the poets of the Tang Dynasty.