Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on August 11, 2007 at 06:46:57 from 82.27.25.220 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot-number of stairwells/ house building style posted by Ed Kiser on August 10, 2007 at 18:02:07:
Dot was back in the trees, looking across the garden area where the sundial is, looking at the windows. From her point of view, top right is Nancy's room, top left if the GA's bedroom (at the FRONT Of the house). To her bottom right view is the drawing-room, with the study being at her bottom left, directly under the GA's bedroom. So she was able to see the light when lit in the GA's bedroom
Surely not. Dot was outside the study window taking the things as Dick passed them throught the curtains. After Dick kicked the hutch she waved through the curtains to warn him that someone had lit a light upstairs in the spare room, and only at that point Dick sent her back to the trees with the suitcase.
"What a good thing he had sent Dorothea off....she (the GA) would have looked straight out into Dorothea's face"
But I agree with Ed's interpretation of the room layout on the garden side of the house.
If the GA's bedroom was at the corner of the house you would expect it to have had another window facing towards the front drive, in the gable end containing the front door. But this is not shown in the picture of the room with skull and crossbones (which incidentally also shows a casement window, although it is clearly a sash in the 'getting in' picture).
I bet that when AR drew these pictures - in a hurry as usual - he didn't envisage us analysing them in this way 64 years later1