He was certainly a very unconceited man.
A more important and more interesting theme was Mr.Magnus' reason for being where he was.

What was he doing here?
What led him to the Chapel doors, he being in no way a religious man?
"It was like this," he told her.

"I was living in Golders Green, and suddenly one morning I was tired of the country that wasn't country, and the butcher boy and the postman.

So I moved as far into the centre of things as I could and took a room in St.Martin's Lane close at hand here.

Then one evening I was wandering about, a desolate Sunday evening when the town is given over to cats.