Nora's Statement Puzzled Me

[maltrab]

In Crums Nora is Chatting to Ivy, she say, When I hear that door open, she is expecting Wally to walk in, who is it that is opening her door then?

 

[wstol]

Ivy?

 

[wstol]

Or the young lady with the laundry in Of Funerals and Fish?

 

[Graham]

Could it be Compo? He did promise Wally that he'd look after her. X

 

[maltrab]

Could it be Compo? He did promise Wally that he'd look after her. X

He does turn up a few minutes later as a fat man

 

[Pearl]

They were talking about Sid and Wally.
She still expects him to walk in semi plastered.

 

[Adrian Morris]

Wasn't it an old lady that opened the door, walked in and then walked back out again?. One of them comes out of the kitchen and finds no one in the Cafe so they wonder if they were hearing things.

 

[maltrab]

They were talking about Sid and Wally.
She still expects him to walk in semi plastered.

I agree, but she said every time I hear that door open, yet she lives on her own

 

[Graham]

Was it before Smiler was lodging with her?

 

[Eithne]

While it might be Fawlty Tower's logic (She was looking at you but talking to me), maybe Nora meant any door and was using the word "the" generically. Or maybe she meant when anyone was at the door, and she opened it in answering.

 

[Roger]

Was it before Smiler was lodging with her?

It was long before Smiler was lodging there.