At The Reception

in the  hotel, at  the  reception , he  walked  past  very  confidently, not  showing  any  signs  of  nervousness, there  stood  the  head  waiter  talking  to  a  policeman,  reaching the  stairs  he  raced  up  to  the  fourth floor beating  the  time the  eelevator  would  have  taken , there  he  panted  breathlessly  , his  picture  with  zarinah  in the  newspapers  with the  headlines  had  left  him shattered