Reflection 4Giles ought to be here at any moment, so I will go into the sitting room to wait for him.
One advantage of having a flat on the ground floor is that one needn’t keep people waiting who come to call and they do not have to come inside.
In fact the only person who has been in here for more than a moment or two is Peter, when he came to hang the pictures that came to London with the furniture from the Vicarage.
It is nice having around me the things I have known all my life although, of course, some of them are rather big, especially the mahogany bedstead which fills the bedroom at the back so that there is hardly room to move.
But I couldn’t leave that bed behind. I had known it all my life. I was born in it for one thing and I can remember when I was small creeping into Mumm
