So I got rid of the coat stand and put in a coffee bar. There was no reason not to suppose, from the structure of his sentence, that I was not being admonished to use the space rather than the coat stand. Everybody else seemed to approve. We even hired an attendant who makes fancy coffee drinks and checks coats, placing them in an unused office outfitted with half a dozen wardrobes, none of which lead to Narnia, to the best of my knowledge.
So I got rid of the coat stand and put in a coffee bar. There was no reason not to suppose, from the structure of his sentence, that I was not being admonished to use the space rather than the coat stand. Everybody else seemed to approve. We even hired an attendant who makes fancy coffee drinks and checks coats, placing them in an unused office outfitted with half a dozen wardrobes, none of which lead to Narnia, to the best of my knowledge.