It was a horrid place, Will says." "So it was horrid--to live in.

It was everything that was cheap and mean and forlorn.

But it was quiet and respectable.

'Tisn't as if I didn't know the way, Bertram; and I'm sure that where that poor crippled woman and daughter are safe, I shall be.

Mrs.Greggory is a lady, Bertram, well-born and well-bred, I'm sure--and that's the pity of it, to have to live in a place like that! They have seen better days, I know.