This of course implies that Scott, too, was at that afternoon tea-party at the Schultz house at Narrabeen.

(Again, the text says that Callcott - Scott - was at the function, and the exchange Lawrence between Somers and Callcott rings very true for Scott... "I might rise up to it, you know," said Jack laconically, "if I bring all my mental weight to bear on it.")

If Scott was in the car, then it is likely that, when the Hum occupants of the car were being dropped off in Seaview Parade, Scott would have availed himself of the opportunity to take Lawrence and Frieda to "Hinemoa" in Florence Avenue to meet (and impress) the woman he was trying to woo, the mother of his future step-sons, the recently-widowed Mrs Andre Adelaide Oatley.

After all, they would have had to walk past "Hinemoa" to get to the Friends' place in Beach Road...so what would be more natural than to pop in and see Scott's future wife on the way, and then for Lawrence to note there its living-room, with the framed portrait of the late Major Oatley and the "settles round the window" (and thus provide him with a "fictionalising" transposition from "St Columb" at Narrabeen).

So "St Columb" is also an amalgam - part "Billabong" in Ocean Road, North Narrabeen, and part "Hinemoa" in Florence Avenue, Collaroy Basin. ("Billabong" did not have a bay-window, but "Hinemoa" certainly did, so that's where the "settles" would have been.)

(It may also be of interest to note that at Paul Delprat's 50th birthday party in his Balmoral studio in March 1992 I met his aunt, Sonia Ashton, who told me - see my Secret Army Research notes entry for 23/3/92 - that she recalled walking along the sand at the bottom of Florence Avenue, Collaroy Basin, with a friend, a Mrs Worsted, who lived in Beach Road, who told her, pointing to a house fronting the water, that it was where Lawrence "had stayed". I now believe that this house, whose front-gate is in Beach Road - it has a long driveway down to the water - was the holiday house which the Friend family rented in 1922, and at which Robert Moreton Friend was staying that weekend in late May, 1922, and where the Friend family Austin was parked. The track from Seaview Parade ended at Florence Avenue, opposite that house, which in turn was across the road from "Hinemoa".)