A Narrow Escape in London

Here's a lede (opening paragraph) for a travel story I'm working on: "If Samson, club held high, had connected with my skull, I would have been as dead as the people whose names grace the building where we encountered each other one September afternoon. Lucky for me, his menacing arm was frozen in time. And the Spooky Man didn't get me, either." (Visiting London's Victoria & Albert Museum).