it was an extremely small , slow , juddery lift whose design and function peculiarities only became comprehensible when you discovered that binky butter-worth had possessed the size , shape , and ability to squeeze into small spaces of a portly young hippopotamus , and had designed the lift to fit , at a squeeze , binky butterworth and one other , much slimmer , person : a chorus girl , for example , or a chorus boy - binky was not picky .