RabIt says the occupant may lower the blind and that while it is lowered the room is not observable. It does not say the occupant has to be alone.

TamsinIt does not say it.

RabTwo pages, and the only sentence about other people is about fire drill. Nobody ever thought about this because nobody at eleven is thinking about what a blind is really for.

He is not excited about it. He has the flat delivery of a man reporting a fault in a wall, and it takes me a moment to understand that he is asking me something.