“You were telling us that there was a telephone in the flower room.”
“Oh, yes—that is in the first room to the left as you come in. It’s really part of the hall.”
“You mean that it has no door?”
“No, no, it has a door. I simply meant that you came to it before you entered the left wing. It balances the cloakroom on the right-hand side. They’re rather like very large closets, you know, except that they both have windows.”
“What do the windows open on to?”
“The front porch. . . . Shall I go on with the rooms?”
“Please, and as briefly as possible.”
“The first room in the left wing is Mr. Ives’s study. It opens into the dining room. They form the ground floor of the left wing. Above them are Mrs. Daniel Ives’s room and bath and two guest rooms and another bath. Above these on the third floor are the servants’ quarters.”
“How many servants were there?”
“Let me see—there were six, I think, but only the four maids lived in the house.”