Why does the narrator call Sir Alexander Heathcote an exact man in Jeffrey Archer’s short story The Chinese statue?
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The narrator called Sir Alexander Heathcote an exact man because as well as being a gentleman, he was an exact man in his behavior. He was exactly six foot- three and a quarter inches tall, rose at seven o’clock every morning, joined his wife at breakfast to eat one boiled egg cooked for precisely four minutes, two pieces of toast with one spoonful of Cooper’s marmalade and drink one cup of China tea. He would then take a hackney carriage from his home in 11 Cadogan Gardens at exactly eight-twenty and arrive at the Foreign Office at promptly eight-fifty-nine, returning home on the stroke of six o’ clock.
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