:08:01
except watch movies and buy CDs.
:08:07
If he'd had any children,
:08:09
something might have come
from the swarm of baby Bernards,
:08:14
but no,
:08:16
he wasn't even married.
:08:18
Dried fruit.
:08:22
But I didn't really pity him.
:08:26
Good old, dear old Bernard.
:08:30
I dare say he was happy
:08:32
to his own, limited extent,
:08:35
on a Bernardian scale.
:08:39
It's strange.
There's a bad smell in my house,
:08:43
on the stairs.
:08:44
Probably a dead rat!
:08:49
Bad odours
make good talking points,
:08:54
I'd already noticed.
:09:00
I always felt a bit nervous
about meeting new clients.
:09:09
There'd be human beings,
:09:11
arranged in a certain order,
:09:14
with whom I'd have to interact.
:09:17
Tomorrow, okay.
:09:19
No problem.
I can be there at 7.
:09:23
I get off at 6.
:09:25
I can make it by 7.
:09:29
Just a sec...
:09:33
Room 317, please.
:09:36
2nd floor, turn right.
:09:41
The stairs are behind you.
:09:43
Experience soon taught me
:09:45
that the people I had to meet
:09:49
were, if not exactly identical,
:09:52
very similar in their habits,
opinions, tastes
:09:57
and basic attitudes to life.