Through Streets Broad And Narrow (1960) - Plot & Excerpts
La Débâcle In the evening of the same day when John kept his appointment with Greenbloom and Groarke at the Shelbourne Hotel he found it extremely difficult to concentrate on anything. This may have been a consequence of his visit to Dymphna in the afternoon, the painful and unresolved impressions which it had made upon him, or it might equally have resulted from the presence of a small stocky Roman Catholic priest, named Father Beste, whom Greenbloom had collected from somewhere. John was at so great a disadvantage that he felt no astonishment, indeed little interest at all, in the fact of Groarke’s presence; though, under the circumstances, it was sufficiently surprising. For his part Groarke was very stiff and surly, seeming to defend his reappearance by a closed kind of hostility. Greenbloom’s other companion was a cheerful round-faced man with short salt-and-pepper hair. His joviality was of the gentle sort and when addressing anyone he seemed almost to be speaking to himself in a charitable monologue which gave one the impression that one was eavesdropping in listening to him at all.
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