It was evident that some of the strange Egyptian smell clung to these old curios; through the broken glass came an added whiff of spice and gum and bitumen, almost stronger than those I had already noticed as coming from others in the room.
All this had really taken but a few minutes.

I was surprised when my eye met, through the chinks between the dark window blinds and the window cases, the brighter light of the coming dawn.

When I went back to the sofa and took the tourniquet from Mrs.Grant, she went over and pulled up the blinds.
It would be hard to imagine anything more ghastly than the appearance of the room with the faint grey light of early morning coming in upon it.

As the windows faced north, any light that came was a fixed grey light without any of the rosy possibility of dawn which comes in the eastern quarter of heaven.

The electric lights seemed dull and yet glaring; and every shadow was of a hard intensity.