You can skip the scenery.

I suppose you got to the house at last ?" "Yes, I got there," continued her father.

"You know what a bleak-looking place it is, right on the side of a bare hill--a square, gray stone place just the color of the hillside.

Well, I got there and walked in.
There was Ted Mathers, half dressed, no collar, with a bottle of whiskey on the table, playing some wretched game of cards by himself.

Elizabeth, what a brute that man is!" She shook her head.
"Go on," she said.