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There's probably a toilet elsewhere in the building.

• junklight 17y ago
  or he used a chamber pot I guess
• jacquesm 17y ago
  There quite possibly wasn't. The stories start in 1887, interior flush toilets were something of a luxury at the time, having only been popularized two years prior (by a guy called Twyford). Houses that already existed did not have room for a 'privy' unless they were extensively remodeled (a toilet needs a lot of plumbing). If there was a toilet it was most likely on the ground floor, near the front of the house (to economize on the runs of big diameter pipes).