The only light in the building at that early hour came from the porters' room.
Taking her by the hand, he led her to the porters' room of the nearby National Museum, where she waited for what "seemed like an eternity".
On each floor in the porter's room, are pails of sand, shovels, etc.
Together, they went up to Street-Porter's room and had hot chocolate and ham sandwiches.
There is unlikely to be any special provision for the Porters to room together in the athletes' village.
Amid the detritus of the long, cluttered proscenium, which — with a mattress propped against the wall, newspapers, cups, cans, and clothes littering the floor — looks more like a crack alley than like the Porters' attic room, the characters peck, cluck, and wander like pigeons on a ledge.
Last month, the operator of Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Nagasaki said its two-storey Henn na (strange) Hotel would be run almost entirely by robots, from its porters to room cleaners and front desk staff, when it opens this summer.
Porters: The Other Room, Tue to 30 Apr LG Last year, a National Youth Theatre play, Homegrown, inspired by three Muslim schoolgirls who ran away to Syria to join Islamic State, was cancelled amid concerns that it promoted an "extremist agenda".
She told The Independent: "One day I was practising in the evening as one did – there were rooms downstairs for this - and as I was finishing one of the college porters entered the room to tell me to stop as everyone had left and he made a lunge for me.
He can't pay his debts at the end of the evening, so the Lala hires him as a porter in exchange for room, board & tips.
But back in the real world – arriving at the austere new terminus in Tweedbank on the inaugural train last Saturday – the service was not exactly in the style of Sir Walter's day, where there would be a roaring fire in the waiting room, and porters and coachmen would busy about to take the luggage up to the Big House at Abbotsford.
