Teaser Tuesday - March 12

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Yes I know it's not tuesday and not 12th March - I've been away and I took this book with me:

It was this realization along with the fact that he was in M. Dupont's room, presumably addressing this most crucial personage, that caused me to stop my hand from knocking, and continue to listen instead.
The bedroom doors of Dartington Hall are of a certain thickness and I could by no means hear complete exchanges, consequently it is hard for me now to recall precisely what I overheard, just as, indeed, it was for me later that same evening when I reported to his lordship on the matter.

What the butler heard.. from Kazuo Ishiguro's getting under the skin of the 1930's English ruling class in The Remains of the Day -our book group book of the month.