As it was quite impossible to find space for her boxes in the bedroom, Mrs.
Conisbee allowed them to be deposited in the room occupied by her daughter, which was on the same floor.

In a day or two the sisters had begun a life of orderly tenor.

When weather permitted they were out either in the morning or afternoon.

Alice Madden was in London for the first time; she desired to see the sights, but suffered the restrictions of poverty and ill-health.

After nightfall, neither she nor Virginia ever left home.
There was not much personal likeness between them.
The elder (now five-and-thirty) tended to corpulence, the result of sedentary life; she had round shoulders and very short legs.