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Some old men return to Oxford and find their youth beckoning to them on the building stones. Smiley is not that kind of person. Ten years ago, he might have done this, but not now. As he passed by the Bodley Library, he had a vague idea that I had studied there. Seeing his instructor's house on Park Road, he remembered that in that long garden before the war, Jabidy asked for the first time if he would like to talk to "one or two people I knew in London". When he heard Tom's clock tower strike six o'clock in the evening, he remembered Bill Haydn and Jim Pledo. They were probably the year he went to London......

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