The next day, he phoned from a public call box to thank me for dinner and to ask if my baby was okay.

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Of course some local-use of the public phones occurs and there's a law requiring BT to provide "reasonable public access to public call box services", so rest assured that there'll always be a few kicking around in places like Piccadilly.

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