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It was four o'clock on the following afternoon, dark and threatening outside, precursory of a thunderstorm.
In that chair in Max's room, where Charlie Rolfe had sat on the previous morning, was the polished cosmopolitan, Jean Adam, lazily lolling back, smoking a cigarette.