Possible Clues:

• Secondary domicile
• Evening out with dish - make mistake going back home temporarily
• Frenchman keeps appointment at his pad
• Awkward red-tape ie right to be included for secondary lodging
• Lodging for occasional use
• Retiree pad, possibly
• Temporary lodging
• Frenchman eats fruit in home from home
• Frenchman, without someone to go out with, in city flat
• A tired peer resorted to second home