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Nor again can the best of athletes go swiftly up a ladder if he carries a priceless violin in one hand and its equally priceless bow in his teeth, and handicaps himself with varnished leather buttoned boots. They climbed, the one below the other.

  

This is from “The Legs of Sister Ursula” collected in the Burwash Edition (Vol. 30), and the Sussex Edition (Vol. 23) – more details here.

Sister Ursula, in attempting to prolong the life of a private patient is making an extraordinary attempt to reach him. Her fellow climber on the ladder has decided that the building is on fire and is heading for the roof.