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St Olave’s Church on Hart Street in London is externally unimpressive, though it is one of the few medieval survivors of the Great Fire of 1666 and the Germanic bombs of 1941, though evidence of the 1950s restoration may be observed. Despite its modest appearance, its perpendicular windows are a contrast to the modern buildings all around it.

Meditative… Yes, that’s the word I’d use to describe him. He’s listening to Stephen, cigarette in one hand and earbuds dangling by their wires from the other. Hirsute… That would do, too. His shaggy hair pushes out from under his blue baseball cap and hangs down as far as his bushy, black beard. There he stands, after taking a tract from me, inhaling smoke from time to time and then breathing it out in two separate streams from his nostrils.