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There came a tap on the door, and a small elderly man entered the room, wearing a cloth cap. I thought he could scarcely be a servant: Charles took no notice, and went on talking. The man walked up to the clock over the fireplace, opened it, wound it up, and went away.
‘Whoever is that?’ I asked.
‘Oh,’ said Charles, ‘that’s the clock man.’