When supper was finished, which lasted some time, my hostess conducted me to my chamber.
"If you had not had enough of it already," she said, "I would have put you in another room, which looks towards the forest; and where you would most likely have seen something more of its inhabitants.

For they frequently pass the window, and even enter the room sometimes.

Strange creatures spend whole nights in it, at certain seasons of the year.

I am used to it, and do not mind it.

No more does my little girl, who sleeps in it always.