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Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream.
When Mrs Flintwinch dreamed, she usually dreamed, unlike the son of her old mistress, with her eyes shut.

She had a curiously vivid dream that night, and before she had left the son of her old mistress many hours.
In fact it was not at all like a dream; it was so very real in every respect.

It happened in this wise.
The bed-chamber occupied by Mr and Mrs Flintwinch was within a few paces of that to which Mrs Clennam had been so long confined.

It was not on the same floor, for it was a room at the side of the house, which was approached by a steep descent of a few odd steps, diverging from the main staircase nearly opposite to Mrs Clennam's door.