What is the meaning of company in this sentence?
Chapter four of Killer in the Rain by Raymond Chandler begins.
FOUR
I paid the taxi off to Killer in the Rain, in front of a house where there was company, and walked up the curving hill of La Verne Terrace to Steiner’s house behind its shrubbery.
Even after checking the parts, before and after this sentence, it is very difficult to figure out the meaning of company in the above paragraph.
What thing is missing from you?
What are some noteworthy achievements of this year’s NGO winners?
Company is just that the people in a house had visitors.
How did Raymond Chandler define “Killer in the Rain”? In both the works the narrator is the FBI detective Philip Marlowe, who returns to the La Verne Terrace house of Harold Steiner. A widow with a father that was a pornographer, sex slave and a blackmailer, Marlowe had found his client’s daughter in a house near the corpse of the owner, and Marlowe has gotten Carmen to go home in her own car. Marlowe is missing from the elevator and wants to find out who killed Steiner.
When a driver starts doing something dangerous on the side of the road, he doesn’t want to drop him off in front of the house to be reported as the scene of the murder. So he has that cabby drop him off on a nearby street, in front of a house that looks like it has visitors, hoping that if the cabby remembers him at all, it will be as a party-goer.
Joe Coburn has it
right?
