Smiley's People

Smiley's People"Knew him personally at all, did you, sir?" the detective chief superintendent of police asked respectfully in a voice kept deliberately low. "Or perhaps I shouldn't inquire."The two men had been together for 15 minutes, but this was the superintendent's first question. For a while. Smiley did not seem to hear it, but his silence was not offensive, he had the gift of quiet. Besides, there is a companionship about two men contemplating a corpse. It was an hour b...