Hardship she had never known, nor yet luxury; the old religion, the old views of sex and of society, endured with her to the end.
After her death the room was converted into a parlour, used almost exclusively by the young people.

At the top of the house slept two servants, each in her own well-furnished retreat; one of them was a girl, the other a woman of about forty, named Mary Woodruff.

Mary had been in the house for twenty years; she enjoyed her master's confidence, and, since old Mrs.Lord's death, exercised practical control in the humbler domestic affairs.
With one exception, all parts of the abode presented much the same appearance as when Stephen Lord first established himself antiquated, and in primitive taste.

Nancy's bedroom alone here.

The furniture was old, solid, homely; the ornaments were displayed the influence of modern ideas.