Sion Crossing
Sion Crossing
“Coming to the Oxbridge Club had been a mistake, for he almost always met people he disliked there. But some wayward impulse, generated by the minor annoyances and petty defeats of the day, had turned him into it off Piccadilly, and now he was justly served: the bar had been bad enough, and he had retreated from it; so he was caught between the CIA man and a colleague he detested, and he must face one of them—Howard Morris up the stairs or David Audley on the other side of the entrance doors.
... Nevertheless, once identified, the dilemma was not too hard to resolve. The swarthy CIA man would merely nod, looking through him with blank unfriendliness, but Audley might well be amused enough to give him a Judas smile. And after the day’s tribulations that was not to be risked.
He relinquished the brass handle of the door and turned towards the stairs again, for all the world as though just arriving.
“Oliver, my dear fellow!”MoreLess
... Nevertheless, once identified, the dilemma was not too hard to resolve. The swarthy CIA man would merely nod, looking through him with blank unfriendliness, but Audley might well be amused enough to give him a Judas smile. And after the day’s tribulations that was not to be risked.
He relinquished the brass handle of the door and turned towards the stairs again, for all the world as though just arriving.
“Oliver, my dear fellow!”MoreLess
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