Which side was the kitchen door on?
Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the tradesmen's entrance....
“He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the [kitchen] door—that is to say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?"
"Yes, he did.”
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Hi. Which side was the kitchen door on? Left or right? As shown in the two pictures?
Thank you.
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I don't think it's possible to say just from this information. We need to know both which direction he approached the door from (we might assume he came from the road, but can't be certain from this information), and also whether "left" is from the perspective of someone standing inside the door facing out or outside the door facing in.
- I don't think it's possible to say just from this information.
- We need to know both which direction he approached the door from (we might assume he came from the road, but can't be certain from this information), and also whether "left" is from the perspective of someone standing inside the door facing out or outside the door facing in.
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I don't think it's possible to say just from this information. We need to know both which direction he approached the door from (we might assume he came from the road, but can't be certain from this information), and also whether "left" is from the perspective of someone standing inside the door facing out or outside the door facing in.
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