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Quite by chance I found myself one morning sitting before a marble-topped table in the A. B. C. shop. I really wondered for the moment what had brought me there, and felt cross with myself for being there at all. Having sampled my tea and roll, I soon buried myself in the capacious folds of my _Daily Telegraph_.
"A glass of milk and a cheesecake, please," said a well-known voice.