He was being honest. The Mayfair apartment must have cost several million to decorate and yet the total effect was modest and self-effacing in its classic simplicity. After years in New York Michael found the contrast striking. Geraint said nothing just shrugged off his coat and switched on the OC player. As he headed, almost in the same movement for the huge kitchen, the first few quiet voices filled the spacious room and the polyphony began to spiral around the first phrase.