“That’s quite so, sir—only that one door.”
“No area entrance or side-door?”
“None, sir—nothing but that.”
“And the only tenants in here—these offices—at night are you and your wife, Hancock?”
“That’s all, sir.”
“Now, where are your rooms?”
“We’ve two rooms in the basement, sir—living-room and kitchen—and two rooms on the top floor—a bedroom and a bathroom.”
“On the top-floor. How many floors are there?”
“Well, sir, there’s the basement—then there’s this—then there’s two floors that’s used by the clerks—then there’s ours.”
“That’s to say there are two floors between your bedroom and this ground floor?”