Chapter 11: Archie’s Digs, 1921Lew fudged his way through Carter’s questions somehow, but he was certain the man thought he was a bona fide suspicious character, and that he’d be back. He was having real trouble keeping his mouth shut around the big man, drawn by both the pull of attraction and the desperate need to talk to someone about it all. He didn’t want to bother Mira, partly because he knew she was busy, but mostly because he didn’t want to draw anyone’s attention to her.
He dragged himself out of his slough of grief and shock after lunch and went round to Archie’s digs. He roomed in a boarding house in Stepney and his landlady knew Lew to say ‘good morning’ and was happy to let him in on her way out to the chemist, to ‘wait for young Mr. Fornham.’
Archie’s room was a bit of a me
