When the work was completed, and the servants had withdrawn, she said to me: "It will be well to be all ready when the Doctor returns.

He will surely want to have Father put to bed; and a proper bed will be better for him than the sofa." She then got a chair close beside her father, and sat down watching him.
I went about the room, taking accurate note of all I saw.

And truly there were enough things in the room to evoke the curiosity of any man--even though the attendant circumstances were less strange.

The whole place, excepting those articles of furniture necessary to a well-furnished bedroom, was filled with magnificent curios, chiefly Egyptian.

As the room was of immense size there was opportunity for the placing of a large number of them, even if, as with these, they were of huge proportions.
Whilst I was still investigating the room there came the sound of wheels on the gravel outside the house.