Chandler looked questioningly at Gin, who had been studying the few occupied tables.

She looked at the occupied tables more closely.

That as obvious when, at 7:30 on a Saturday night, ours was the only occupied table.

The low murmur came from the only other occupied table, the one at which Bealtur sat.

There are precisely two occupied tables in the establishment, the barflies' and mine.

At the other occupied table sat a lean-visaged but elegant man in dark clothes, reading a paper by candle-light as he ate.

And why not add sparkle by lighting all the candles in the room, not just those at the occupied tables?

By the time they finished their desserts and coffee, theirs was the only occupied table in the restaurant.

Asked if there is, perhaps, another table, the captain merely gestures at the occupied tables and produces a little shrug.

Approaching the visitor's table- the only occupied table in the room- he laid the ancient texts carefully upon the white linen.