It was November. Although it was not yet late, the sky was dark when I turned into Laundress Passage. Father had finished for the day, switched off the shop lights and closed the shutters; but so I would not e home to darkness he had left on the light over the stairs to the flat. Through the glass in the door it cast a foolscap regle of paleness onto the wet pavement, and it was while I was standing in that regle, about to turn my key in the door, that I first saw the letter. Another white regle, it was on the fifth step from the bottom, where I couldn’t miss it.
I closed the door and put the shop key in its usual place behind Bailey’s Advanced Principles of Geometry. Poor Bailey. No one has wanted his fat gray book for thirty years. Sometimes I wonder what he makes of his role as guardian of the bookshop keys. I don’t suppose it’s the destiny he had in mind for the masterwork that he spent two decades writing.
A letter. For me. That was something o……（内容加载失败！）
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