1.
All three bedrooms in the house opened into the same corridor.
2.
On the night she died, Julia came to Helen’s room because she could smell her stepfather’s Indian cigar.
3.
The windows of the three bedrooms were locked from the inside on the night of Julia’s death.
4.
Helen heard a woman’s scream, then a low whistle, and finally a sound like metal.
5.
Helen believes the loud storm that night made it harder for her to be sure what sounds she heard.
6.
Julia’s last words were “It was the band! The speckled band.”
7.
The police were sure that Dr Roylott killed Julia with a kind of poison.
8.
Julia was wearing only her nightdress and was holding a match and a matchbox in her left hand.
9.
Helen thinks that Julia must have been trying to see something in her room when she lit a match.
10.
Helen and her sister always locked their bedroom doors at night because of the dangerous animals.
11.
The “speckled band” might have meant the gypsies whose spotted scarves Julia had seen.
12.
Apart from the sisters and Dr Roylott, there were no other people inside the house that night.