“Oh, yes; I was not in the habit of coming down after dinner. I had my meals in the nursery.”
“Did Mr. Ives use the study much—to write or to work in, I mean?”
“I don’t know how much he worked in it; he had quite a collection of technical volumes in it, but I don’t believe that he did much writing, though. He had a very large, flat-topped desk that he used as a kind of work bench.”
“Where he made the boats and dollhouses?”
“Yes.”
“Kept his tools and materials?”
“Yes.”
“Was that desk visible from the door?”
“Yes; it was directly opposite the door into the hall.”
“Would a person going from the flower room to the foot of the nursery stairs pass it?”