i wonder if they know , or if they can tell , harry wondered to himself as the bus trundled along the on straight round that would eventually take him to what he was sure would turn out to be another grotty little shoebox that some unscrupulous landlord was way over what he should be , but then it was london and you had to expect to pay way over the odds for any scrap of space , no matter how unkempt and rundown it was .