In 1927-8, George Orwell lodged at No 10 Portobello Road with a Mrs Craig, formerly a lady's maid, who, when she, her husband and Orwell were locked out of the house, declined to borrow a ladder from her neighbours to climb through an upstairs window. In the 14 years she had lived there she had never spoken to them; she did not wish to now in case they became familiar - one could not be too careful in Notting Hill. They walked a mile to fetch a ladder from a relative.
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