Chichester Terrace is the Brighton address of Patrick Hazlewood’s flat, a place associated both with a remembered view of the sea and with Tom Burgess’s secretive nighttime visit there with Marion Taylor. Its composed streetscape provides a striking threshold between Marion and Tom’s walk together and the discovery of Patrick’s named door.

Setting and Appearance

Marion recalls Chichester Terrace as a quiet, solid street of broad pavements, glossy doors set behind Doric columns, and black-and-white tiled steps. Brass knockers shine against white plaster façades; straight railings and long windows reflect the street lamps and occasional traffic. The street’s grandeur is restrained, unlike the more imposing Sussex Square and Lewes Crescent.

Patrick’s Flat and Sea View

From Patrick Hazlewood’s flat, the view takes in the Volk’s railway, the Duke’s Mound gardens, the breakwater, and the sea. Marion remembers it clearly despite having visited only rarely. By contrast, she and Tom had no sea view from their former terraced house on Islingword Street, where the neighbours’ windows reflected their own image back at them. The view gives Patrick’s address a vivid place in Marion’s memory, even as the flat itself is bound up with what she did not know about Tom and Patrick.

The Nighttime Visit

After walking together along the seafront, Tom and Marion reach Chichester Terrace without Marion having paid attention to their direction. Tom recognizes Patrick’s building, produces a set of keys, and leads her up its tiled steps. Inside, the yellow-and-gold hallway and red-carpeted stairs give way to the second-floor landing, where a gold-framed plate identifies Patrick Hazlewood’s door. Tom has the keys and opens the flat; the familiar address becomes the setting for Marion’s dawning unease about why Tom has brought her there.