stairhead

Which shows the use Jorian must have made of his time at the stairhead, and why Martha Pappenheim's light went out.

Across the stairhead I could hear Jimmy shouting music-hall ditties—his custom in his bath.

He rushed away to the stairhead till Haigh shouted, "Put on your trousers, man, first!"

He took the orange envelope and opened it beneath the flaring gas that piped and whistled at the stairhead.