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Nearly twenty minutes early, it was not yet a quarter to five, Stephen and Tess stood outside the New Walk apartment block. After Stephen rang the bell, they heard the buzz and Lance's jaunty voice down the intercom.
In his sitting-room he looked to Stephen as though he hadn't stirred out since the morning. He had, it was true, taken off his dressing-gown and changed from pyjama trousers into jeans: otherwise he might just have got up, not precisely sleepy but not ready to recognize that the day had begun.