"Only could?" He bends down, clearly expecting something!!

When he leads her to the back door, it leads into a vast kitchen space, room enough for at least a dozen servants to bustle around without bumping into one another. It's been modernised, but otherwise clearly the basis for period films. The hall it leads them into branches off into servants quarters and up a flight of stairs and through a set of double doors is finally the house as she knows it, placing them by the front foyer. There in the entrance stands Jekyll still in a lab coat, setting his filecase on a side table.