Ten minutes later she decides that if the house has a cellar, it has been deliberately concealed. The doorway in the kitchen leads to a larder. The one in the hallway is a utility cupboard. The one under the stairs has a collection of startlingly ugly stuffed animals with glass eyes that the Inspector assumes were given as barter and then proved impossible to spend in the same context. Or perhaps they’re classics, and represent some sort of deposit account of invisible cash: collectors will do almost anything for the most bizarre objects.