You will be perfectly safe.' And this extraordinary man took up his pen again.
I did as I was bid, and found myself in a little dark chamber which smelt of chemicals, and was lit only by a tiny window high up in the wall.

The door had swung behind me with a click like the door of a safe.

Once again I had found an unexpected sanctuary.
All the same I was not comfortable.

There was something about the old gentleman which puzzled and rather terrified me.

He had been too easy and ready, almost as if he had expected me.