The door opened then, and Peggotty appeared, beckoning to Ham to come in.

I would have kept away, but she came after me, entreating me to come in too.

Even then, I would have avoided the room where they all were, but for its being the neat-tiled kitchen I have mentioned more than once.

The door opening immediately into it, I found myself among them before I considered whither I was going.
The girl--the same I had seen upon the sands--was near the fire.

She was sitting on the ground, with her head and one arm lying on a chair.
I fancied, from the disposition of her figure, that Em'ly had but newly risen from the chair, and that the forlorn head might perhaps have been lying on her lap.