Elsie was cleaning the upper windows of T. T. Riceyman\'s, and she had arrived at the second-floor spare-room, which had two windows, one on King\'s Cross Road and the other on Riceyman Steps. (A third window, on Riceyman Steps, had been bricked up, like two first-floor windows on King\'s Cross Road, in the prehistoric ages of the house.) Two-thirds of her body was dangerously projected over King\'s Cross Road, above the thunder of the trams and the motor-lorries and the iron trotting of cart-horses; the inferior third dangled within the room. She clung with one powerful arm to woodwork or brickwork, while with the other she wiped and rubbed the panes; the window-sill was the depository of ............