On 21/10/12 8:06 PM, Donna Richoux wrote:

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Page 246
Then he woke up and looked at the light. The curtains were drawn. He
listened to the loud wild calling of blackbirds and thrushes in the
wood. It would be a brilliant morning, about half past five, his hour
for rising.

I'm not sure what this means. He might have seen the light in the gaps
(chinks). It doesn't say he got out of bed to peer around the curtains.
If they were open because a maid had been there, she was darned early.
Maybe they had never been closed. Maybe they were even permanently tied
back.


That is certainly confusing. At the age when I read that book, I doubt I
would have noticed passages like that.
--
Robert Bannister