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Mr Verloc was an intermittent patron . He came and went without any very apparent reason . He generally arrived in London -LRB- like the influenza -RRB- from the Continent , only he arrived unheralded by the Press ; and his visitations set in with great severity . He breakfasted in bed , and remained wallowing there with an air of quiet enjoyment till noon every day -- and sometimes even to a later hour . But when he went out he seemed to experience a great difficulty in finding his way back to his temporary home in the Belgravian square . He left it late , and returned to it early -- as early as three or four in the morning ; and on waking up at ten addressed Winnie , bringing in the breakfast tray , with jocular , exhausted civility , in the hoarse , failing tones of a man who had been talking vehemently for many hours together . His prominent , heavy-lidded eyes rolled sideways amorously and languidly , the bedclothes were pulled up to his chin , and his dark smooth moustache covered his thick lips capable of much honeyed banter .