Marc Chagall Painting

Marc Chagall Painting
"'Londoners are now in such a state of nerves - if I may use the expression, in such a state of funk - that every passer-by, however innocent, is looked at with suspicion by his neighbour if his avocation happens to take him abroad between the hours of one and three in the morning.'
"I'd like to gag that ex-Lord Mayor!" concluded Joe Chandler wrathfully.
Marc Chagall Painting
Just then the lodger's bell rang.
"Let me go up, my dear," said Bunting.
His wife still looked pale and shaken by the fright she had had.
"No, no," she said hastily. "You stop down here, and talk to Joe. I'll look after Mr. Sleuth. He may be wanting his supper just a bit earlier than usual to-day." Marc Chagall Painting