Nevertheless they at once felt that they were strangers there.

The furniture was for the most part the same, yet the place had been metamorphosed.

A new sofa had been introduced, a horrid chintz affair, most unprelatical and almost irreligious; such a sofa as never yet stood in the study of any decent High Church clergyman of the Church of England.

The old curtains had also given way.

They had, to be sure, become dingy, and that which had been originally a rich and goodly ruby had degenerated into a reddish brown.