Mrs.Grant and her staff had worked well, and all was bright and fresh and clean.

We took a brief survey of the chief rooms and then separated to have a wash and to change our clothes after our long journey of more than four-and-twenty hours.
We had supper in the great dining-room on the south side, the walls of which actually hung over the sea.

The murmur came up muffled, but it never ceased.

As the little promontory stood well out into the sea, the northern side of the house was open; and the due north was in no way shut out by the great mass of rock, which, reared high above us, shut out the rest of the world.

Far off across the bay we could see the trembling lights of the castle, and here and there along the shore the faint light of a fisher's window.