Narrator's mother, Mrs S had given narrator the address when Mrs Dorling had visited them.There was war going on in the country that time. Mrs Dorling was an acquintance of hers and every time she visited the narrator, she would take something or the other with her. Since there was war going on, mrs Dorling told that she would want to save all their nice things and hence narrator's mother gave them away to her. She later told her daughter about Mrs Dorling's address on 46, Marconi street