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A few days later, at nine-thirty in the evening, Quentin climbed the stairs of a house on the Calle del Cister.
He entered the second floor, traversed the lay-brother's school -- a large room with tables in rows and placards on the walls -- and passed into the Lodge, which was a garret with a table at one end and an oil lamp that provided the only light.