«The suite was on the first floor. They were admitted not by Nell but by a small dark man of about thirty who introduced himself as Godfrey Tate and who favoured them with a narrow smile. There was something spare and economical about him from his longish thin black hair and dab of moustache to his tiny feet in lace-up boots. He wore tube-like black slacks, a very tight skimpy black shirt, and the air of one who rations his movements, his speech and his manners to the starkest barrenness social usage permits.»
Ruth Rendell, Some Lie and Some Die. An Inspector Wexford Mystery, Londres, Arrow Books, 1994, 191 p., p. 94. Édition originale : 1973.
(Une définition du zeugme ? Par là.)