In the first scene, when Miss Scarlet and her unwitting accomplices have their mugshots taken by the police, the chalkboards they hold up reveal their dates of birth as follows: "Ivy Woods19/08/36", "Clementine Briggs 10/11/50", "Solomon James 05/10/13", "Barnabas Potts 15/07/34", and "Eliza Scarlet 28/05/56". Miss Scarlet's story began in 1882, so if it is around 1884 now, this would make her about 28.