Thomas had said to let myself in, but I knocked loudly and waited for a while before I opened the door. (Whenever anyone told me to let myself in, I half expected to discover their body.) On the landing—to my right the stairs descended into a dark basement—I stomped several times, as if there were snow on my boots, although it had been a winter without snow, then I opened the interior door and entered the hall and called out hello.
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