[Healeys] Door handle escutcheon

[Daniel and Diane White]

Hello List,
I've searched the archives and can't fine an answer to this one...I'm 
installing my new interior door handles and am trying to figure out how 
you depress the chrome escutcheon far enough while at the same time 
inserting the pin into the shaft that the handle fits onto.  I was going 
to try and grow a few more thumbs but the chances of that are slim.
Thanks,
1962 BN7 MkII