The Absence of Mr Glass
THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and
specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough,
in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which
showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble.
In such a place the sea had something of the monotony of a blue-green
dado: for the chambers themselves were ruled throughout by a terrible
tidiness not unlike the terrible tidiness of the sea.