Nothing! I could smell his presence there – that sulphurous, infernal whiff – but the shop was quite abandoned. He will never set foot there again.’ Noah stared fixedly from his study window to the street below as Benjamin poured tea from a silver pot. ‘I have never been t...
And what an aspect it presented in the winter twilight: gaudier (if that can be imagined) than the Hellenic Club, and as lacking in gravitas as the Oxford and Cambridge Clubs were distinguished. Its profusion of columns and capitals, its porphyry, Portland stone and pediment made it an architect’...