Excerpt from Tales of Men and Ghosts
Hubert Granice, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece.
Three minutes to eight.
In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of the eminent legal firm ad Ascham and Pettilow, would have his punctual hand on the door-bell of the flat.
It was confirmed that to reflect that Ascham was so punctual - the suspense was beginning to make his host nervous. And the sound of the door-bell would be the beginning of the end-after that there"d be no going back, by God - no going back!
Granice resumed his pacing. Each time he reached the end of the room opposite the door he caught his reflection in the Florentine mirror above the fine old credence he had picked up at Dijon - saw himself spare, quick-moving, carefully brushrdand dressed, but furrowed, gray abut the temples, with a stoop which he corrected by a spasmodic straightening of the shoulders whenever a glass confronted him: a tires middle-aged man, baffled, beaten, worn out.
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