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corner she could see the captain’s cabin with the light on and the dark figure of the captain silhouetted. But nobody else. It had been entirely deserted.
You could get to the deck two ways: the stairs at the end of Row A, or a narrow ladder at the other side up to the captain’s cabin. There was a iron railing all around it, painted white, that came up a little higher than a grown-up’s waist.
The first-class deck was shaped sort of like a big fat L. The long part was long enough to have a really good run (or would have been, if she had been a running- about sort of child) and the short part was deep and wide, and set all over with deckchairs.
The ladder was in the middle of the long part of the L, and the door from Row A opened up on the end of the short part of the L.
On the short part of the L – at a right angle to the door – there was a little jutting-out part, like a platform. The platform part was directly over the sea. This was so that you could stand and look down at the water far below without having to look at the crew deck underneath. This was very important to the passengers: Letitia said so. It was Letitia who had explained to Isobel why the platform part was there. It stuck out
above the ocean, and by the edge was a brass telescope
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