I liked him too. I thought having the bellhop was an inspired idea, and he grabbed the part and ran with it, once again proving that there are no small roles, only small actor.

Unfortunately, I can't say anything about Vicki's dress, but I will take Lydia's word for it that it's nice.

Also unfortunately, my old notes say I couldn't ID the piece that Elizabeth is playing on the piano--while the clock is striking! It might have been Liszt, so more proof that she had pianistic chops. But I think this may be the last time we will every see or hear her play.

Vicki tells Elizabeth that David asked her to stay. Elizabeth thinks that's odd. Perhaps she thinks it’s extremely odd, and that’s why she gazes at the ceiling as Vicki and Carolyn are about to leave the drawing room.

Thunder begins to rumble as Carolyn orders coffee at the diner for herself and Vicki. It continues throughout the episode, especially when Carolyn tells her mother that Burke drove Vicki to Bangor, and she's probably spilling all the Collins family secrets to him.

And yes, Vicki probably should have taken the bus to Bangor, but I do like it that her answer to Burke is always that she stands on her own two feet.

In those days, any self-respecting heroine wore only tulle nightgowns! 

Interesting thought, joeytrom!

I wasn't surprised to see the seaweed on the floor--the writers had to make sure it was still there so Roger and Elizabeth could find it later. 

Spoooooooky story, Lydia! It reminds me of the one--no seaweed, however--in which a mysterious young girl hitches a ride with a guy, who lends her his sweater. She gets out of the car at a deserted house, but the young man is so smitten that he forgets to ask for his sweater back. After asking a lot of people about her, he finds out that she died years before--and finds his sweater, neatly folded, on top of her tombstone.

Okay, I'm willing to concede that Vicki's robe looks like something from John's Bargain Stores (if anyone remembers those). At least Elizabeth's caftan had a few stylish features, however unfortunate they were.

My husband, who is highly knowledgeable about nautical matters, says that Maggie got the sail names right but didn't specify the rigging. But her main goal was to impress Joe, and she certainly accomplished that. And she plies him with enough coffee to to keep him at the cottage till after 2:00 a.m., even though he probably has to get up for work at something like 4:00 a.m.

In her terror, poor Vicki has doubled the number of rooms at Collinwood from 40 to 80, possibly reflecting her fear that whoever is looking for her will take quite a long time to find her.

Before Roger opens the secret panel (hooray!) in the drawing room, he carefully turns out all the lights--but leaves the fire burning merrily away. Later, Carolyn comes downstairs and is surprised to see that the drawing room is empty--but surely she knows about the secret panel herself.

We also see the spiral staircase for the first time, I believe. It will figure prominently in two other storylines that I can remember.

Once again, Roger shows his cruel streak, maybe so he'll look like more of a hero when he finally releases Vicki from her prison. But then there's that seaweed....

Almost forgot that the last scene contains a classic (at least to me) blooper. There must have been a lot of spy novels in the orphanage library, and Vicki must have read every one of them. She very ingeniously uses a hairpin to push the key out of the lock on the outside of the door. So far, so good, but when the key falls out of the lock and onto the floor, the prop person laid it down below the middle of the door, not off to the side where the lock is!