Such a nice place.' 'Was Dilly there ?' 'Dilly?
Er--no--no--she wasn't.

She was in the night nursery, with Satan.' Sometimes Edith thought that her daughter's names were decidedly a failure--Aspasia by mistake, Matilda through obstinacy, and Dilly by accident.

However the child herself was a success.

She was four years old when the incident occurred about the Mitchells.

The whole of this story turns eventually on the Mitchells.
The Ottleys lived in a concise white flat at Knightsbridge.