1.   He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains.

2.   ...net curtains with frills.

3.   Kim stared through the net curtain into the grey cloud filled sky.

4.   And, turning back the net curtain in his wee front parlour, caught sight of what he took to be a torchlight procession.

5.   A net curtain stirs at the window, diffusing the sharpness of the outside world.

6.   Which is in any case an airwell, with more net curtains at the windows on the other side.

7.   Sometimes I glimpse a figure moving behind the net curtains on the other side of the airwell.

8.   I can just see, through the net curtains of the office opposite, someone leaning back from his desk, the phone to his ear.

9.   In all of them hang net curtains.

10.   Because on the inside -- yes, I have my airwells, I have work going forward behind the net curtains.