I had no idea there were so many of us." "Well, you're not going to live here," said Laura.

"There's room enough for just Patty and her father." "There is, if we each take a room to ourself," said Mr.Fairfield.

"You may have this parlour, my daughter, and I'll take the library.

Where is the library, Miss Russell ?" "I think it has just stepped out," said Frank; "at any rate, it isn't on this floor; there's only this room, and the dining-room, and a kitchen cupboard." "Very likely the library is on the third floor," said Marian; "that would be convenient." "There isn't any third floor," explained Laura.

"This is what they call a story-and-a-half house." "It would have to be expanded into a serial story, then, before it would do for us," said Mr.Fairfield.