Dear Faldage: Lots of New England houses had ells. Frequently windows were close to intersection of the ell. My mother changed the placement of furniture in my bedroom, which was one part of ell. She put my dresser with mirror in the corner of the room at ninety degrees to window close to the ell. The maid had the room on the other side of the ell, with her bed at ninety degrees to window. I was asleep, when light from her room reflected from mirror of my dresser and woke me up. She was nude sitting crosslegged on her bed close to her lamp clipping her toenails, with the promised land in full view. My only and unsought experience with ellpeeping.