"There were six other people ahead of him the waiting room. There was a fat mother with her two little boys aged about nine and eleven.
There was a bright-eyed young couple who looked as through they might be on their honeymoon. And there was a pale woman with long while gloves, who sat very upright, looking straight ahead, with her hands folded on her lap.
Nobody spoke. Lexington wondered whether they were all writing cooking-books, like himself, but when he put his questions to them aloud, he got no answer.
The grown-ups merely smiled mysteriously to themselves and shook their heads, and the two children stare at him as though they were seeing a lunatic.
Soon, the door opened and..."
I love Roald Dahl..
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