CHAPTER TENSarah Dillon lived on the St. John’s Wood side of Maida Vale, less than five minutes’ walk from Maida Vale tube station: she shared a ground-floor flat with Elizabeth Maine, a girl slightly senior to Sally, who had trained as a masseuse and worked in St. Monica’s Hospital. The house in which they had a flat was one of the old, stucco-covered mansions which had been “converted” into separate habitations. While there were some drawbacks in comparison with modern flats, the two girls had the advantage of one big, beautifully proportioned sitting room opening on to the garden, even if their bedrooms, kitchenette, and bathroom showed very plainly that they were sections of another big room and the passage which once ran between them. Both girls had some income of their own apart from
