Resting on one of the joists was a hammer and a screwdriver as if someone had been working on it recently.
Ilitta looked at the ladder leading down to the passage on which their bedrooms were situated and where the Baboon, Albert, was supposed to be acting as sentinel.
Then she could see by craning her head backwards that there were doors not only on the side of the passage where their rooms were situated but also opposite.
She was certain these led to cupboards or small bedrooms which in many large houses had no outside window, but where the lowest and least important kitchenmaid or housemaid slept until they were promoted to larger and better bedrooms.
Her mother had always refused to use them in her home because she considered them unhealthy.
Nevertheless they were there as part of
