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I have a very trivial mind. Detail delights me. Ramifications enchant me. Distance no object. No reasonable offer refused.
London. Where no one knows his neighbour. Where shops do not know their customers. Where physicians are suddenly called to unknown patients whom they never see again. Where you may lie dead in your house for months together unmissed and unnoticed till the gas-inspector comes to look at the meter. Where strangers are friendly and friends are casual. London, whose rather untidy and grubby bosom is the repository of so many odd secrets. Discreet, incurious and all-enfolding London.
Sin is in the intention, not the deed. That is the difference between divine law and human law.
