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Fink, poor fellow, was a widower, and each of his daughters had said that she

would rather be dead than live in a dump like Lyndhurst, so he had to live all by

himself in the Diamond Hotel, near the office, on the other side of the Market

Square. The food at the Diamond, Fink said, was giving him an ulcer in the stomach,

so he ate his lunch with Gottlieb, at the Gottliebs' house. Carefully they drove to

Gottlieb's house for lunch

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ne day in Gottlieb's car and the next day in Fink's

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nd ate the lunch that Sylvia and Mrs Gottlieb served them both. Then Gottlieb

retired to his bedroom with the newspaper and had a little sleep until two o'clock,

and Fink did the same in the lounge, with his shoes off and his stockinged2 feet

pointing to the ceiling from the end of the sofa.

Mrs Gottlieb was not amused.

offended. You know what he's like.