12: Madame Stephanie
RISING LATE ON MONDAY MORNING, Gees went out to Piccadilly Circus and got himself a breakfast at the Corner House which he ate with a rather yearning memory of Nicholas Churchill’s idea of breakfast. He returned to Little Oakfield Street to find that Eve Madeleine had not even yet arrived, and that the woman who “did out” his living rooms and the two offices and usually cooked breakfast for him had finished her chores and gone— knowing nothing of his return the night before, she had not come in early enough to get breakfast for him as she usually did.
He settled himself in Eve Madeleine’s office with the library book she had left there, and tried to get interested in it until about half-past eleven, when the rightful occupant of the room entered the flat and appeared
