“Come in,” she said, “it’s hotter in here.” I bet it is.I followed her down the narrow passage. Turning left into a back room, I guessed the...layout was the same in all these terraced houses. Furnishing was minimal but there was a soft pink glow from a table lamp beside the double bed. She faced me. “So, neighbour, what’s your name?”“Tom. Some call me Tommy. And you are?”“Ruby,” she said, stubbing out her cigarette in a glass ashtray and handing it to me. “Don’t take offence, but I need to see. Not that my brother was a creature of habit, but I could picture it. He would have got up, slipped his boxers on and then picked up his phone. As he was walking to the bedroom door, his right hand would reach behind and pull his waistband out a little. He would then reach behind himself with his left hand and tuck the phone in, before sliding it around to just behind his hip.‘Yes ma-am,’ I got in return, causing us both to giggle.“In some ways, I am glad we could not go further than we did last. They descended, and advanced towards the clump of trees, and Morrel soon recognized the other gentleman as Doctor d'Avrigny.The young man, seeing them approach, drew back mechanically, until he found himself stopped by a sycamore-tree in the centre of the clump; there he was compelled to remain. Soon the two gentlemen stopped also."Ah, my dear doctor," said the procureur, "heaven declares itself against my house! What a dreadful death--what a blow! Seek not to console me; alas, nothing can. I was in my Manhattan high-rise on Sutton Place, livid because I could not go out for dinner with one of my women due to the blizzard. Therefore, as an alternative, I decided to ordered pizza for dinner and stayed home. I knew it was going to take some time for the pizza delivery person to get here, but he or she had better get here soon if they wanted a nice tip. Security downstairs informed me I had a pizza delivery and I granted him permission to send the delivery person up. The doorbell.