It has only been by accident that it has been found out, and then they have been caught hurriedly putting away the dishes that contained their loathsome food.

A woman, whose name I could give, and whose dwelling I could point to, was said not only to be in deep distress, but to be also ill of fever.

She was visited.

On entering the lower room of the house, the visitors saw that there was not a scrap of furniture; the woman, fever-stricken, sat on an orange-box before a low fire; and to prevent the fire from going quite out, she was pulling her seat to pieces for fuel bit by bit.

The visitors looked upstairs.