She delighted in putting the room tidy late in the evening, when we helpless people who could see were beginning to think of lighting the candles.

The time when we could just discern her, flitting to and fro in the dusk, in her bright summer dress--now visible as she passed the window, now lost in the shadows at the end of the room--was the time when she began to clear the tables of the things that had been wanted in the day, and to replace them by the things which would be wanted at night.

We were only allowed to light the candles when they showed us the room magically put in order during the darkness as if the fairies had done it.

She laughed scornfully at our surprise, and said she sincerely pitied the poor useless people who could only see! The same pleasure which she had in arranging the room in the dark she also felt in wandering all over the house in the dark, and in making herself thoroughly acquainted with every inch of it from top to bottom.
As soon as Oscar was well enough to go down-stairs, she insisted on leading him.
"You have been so long up in your bedroom," she said, "that you must have forgotten the rest of the house.

Take my arm--and come along.