As Mrs.Lester usually sat up late, being a lover of books, and seldom stirred before ten o'clock, the maid waited until that hour before bringing her mistress's cup of tea.

That stain on the carpet near the door shows where the tray fell from her hands." Sometimes an artist obtains the strongest effect by one deft sweep of the brush.

Winter, though he would have blushed if described as an artist in words, had achieved a similar result by his concluding sentence.

Theydon pictured the scene.

He saw the limp form thrown across the bed, the distorted face, the hands and arms posed grotesquely.
He heard the shrill scream of the terrified servant, an elderly woman whom Bates described as "a quiet body," and could imagine the clatter of the laden tray as it dropped from nerveless fingers.