Dr. Meade could tell unlovely stories of those families who had been driven from mansions to boarding houses and from boarding houses to dingy rooms on back streets.
At the urging of Father Nicanor, he arranged for the transfer of Catarino's store to a back street and he closed down several scandalousestablishments that prospered in the center of town.
I checked every back street wide enough for a car within five minutes of Lauriston Gardens and looked for anywhere you could easily dispose of a bulky object without being observed.