Now we are out in the passage.

Mind! there is a step down, just at this place.

And now a step up again.

Here is a sharp corner to turn at the top of the staircase.

And there is a rod out of the stair-carpet, and an awkward fold in it that might throw you down." So she took him into his own drawing-room, as if it was he that was blind, and she who had the use of her eyes.