CHAPTER FIVEThe Other Place
A few minutes later Mrs. Avery Bradlock rose, everybody rose, and the host went directly to a door at the end of the dining-room. Its companion door, at the other end of a built-in Eastlake sideboard, was partly hidden by an immense painted screen, and led to the service pantry; this one opened on a small lobby.
There were three doors leading out of the lobby, and Avery Bradlock unbolted and opened the farther one. The party went through into a short, low passage way, lighted by a single bracket; Bradlock had turned on the switch from the dining-room.
Mrs. Paul Bradlock passed him, opened a door at the end of the passage, and stood aside, smiling. She said: “Do come in.”
Gamadge and Iverson were last. Gamadge closed the door for Vera Bradlock, and then stood
