16 the tiara bond had lunch in the air-conditioned 'sunburst room ' beside the big kidney-shaped swimming pool ( lifesaver : bobby bilbo-pool scoured daily by hydro jet , said a sign ) and having decided that only about one per cent of the customers were fit to wear bathing suits , walked very slowly through the heat across the twenty yards of baked lawn that separated his building from the central establishment , took off his clothes and threw himself nak*d on his bed .