Chapter 5

    ...it was a large room, fitted round with glass presses, furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a businnes table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron. The fire burned in the grate; a lamp was set lighted on the chimney-shelf.

Chapter 8

    ...there lay the cabinet before their eyes in the quiet lamplight, a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth , the kettle singing its thin strain, a drawer or two open, papers neatly set forth on the business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid out for tea; the quietest room, you would have said, and, but for the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most common place that night in London.

    At one table, there were traces of chemical work, various measured heaps of some white salt being laid on glass saucers, as though for an experiment which the unhappy had been prevented.

    Fireside, where the easy chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea things stood ready to the sitter’s elbow, the very sugar in the cup. There several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open.