This she dropped as she ran from the kitchen into the front hall.

Then the front hall porter will escort you back to the hostel, and you will stay there until you have seen Matron... `

Apart from the young constable, whose radio was crackling like an egg in a hot frying pan, the front hall was empty.

In Christopher's absence, the silence in the front hall seemed to reverberate.

In the front hall, he dropped the letter on the salver on the side table.