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But, I hear you ask, with some scepticism (and with that gun to my head) . . . of all the many splendid houses you've sold in your seventeen years in the business, you just happened to have the key to that particular one? To which I would answer, of course not I have the keys to them all.
Excerpted from A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan. Copyright © 2015 by Phil Hogan. Excerpted by permission of Picador. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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