for one must draw the line somewhere. The two upper floors were parcelled out among four different
sets of lodgers: there was a tailor named Holt, a drunken fellow who used to beat his wife at night till her
screams woke the house; above him there was another tailor with a wife but no children; these people
were Wesleyans, given to drink but not noisy. The two back rooms were held by single ladies, who it
seemed to Ernest must be respectably connected, for well-dressed gentlemanly-looking young men
used to go up and down stairs past Ernest's rooms to call at any rate on Miss Snow - Ernest had heard
her door slam after they had passed. He thought, too, that some of them went up to Miss Maitland's.
Mrs Jupp, the landlady, told Ernest that these were brothers and cousins of Miss Snow's, and that she
was herself looking out for a situation as a governess, but at present had an engagement as an actress
at the Drury Lane Theatre. Ernest asked whether Miss Maitland in the top back was also looking out for
a situation, and was told she was wanting an engagement as a milliner. He believed whatever Mrs Jupp
told him.