The stairhead cludgie door was ajar, which it hadn't been when I'd left. |
Antoine took up his position at the stairhead, so that he could see all the clerks as they came in under the arched gateway. |
Then I heard him talking to himself and muttering, and every time the bell rang out he came on the stairhead, with 'What is that, Mrs. |
But Sir Randal had met her between the door and the stairhead. |
She set her lamp on the floor at the stairhead, and backed, backed from him into the darkness of the room. |
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. |