No Harry Palfrey...

I loved the film, and I loved the book. In fact, this film was my first introduction to the John Le Carré universe and,I think it is still quite underrated but reading the book a little later, I wondered why they had completely erased the narrator, Harry Palfrey, of the story ? In the novel, Palfrey, Legal adviser of the Russia House, is one of the main characters not so much by his action than by his looking at people and reading into them. He's probably the second lead, or at least third, next to Barley and Katya. Of course I understand a movie adaptation was doomed to reduce his part considerably: he would have slowed down the main plot and keeping his narrative was an imperative for a voice-over. It's almost like Levin in Anna Karenina, who's always a two-dimensional character (if he's here at all) because his personal story gets too important on the main story. Still, no apparitions of any kind ? It would have been nice to see him even briefly, and specially it would have made the others characters behave in a more coherent way: it seems Palfrey's part on the action is assumed by Clive, the girl secretary, and Ned himself with happy or less happy results.
" You ain't running this place, Bert, WILLIAMS is!" Sgt Harris