Perhaps, however, it is only because it is my own." It was not altogether the idea that it was her own that made Mary Erskine like her house.

The interior of it was very pleasant indeed, especially after Albert had completed the furnishing of it, and had laid the floor.

It contained but one room, it is true, but that was a very spacious one.

There were, in fact, two apartments enclosed by the walls and the roof, though only one of them could strictly be called a room.

The other was rather a shed, or stoop, and it was entered from the front by a wide opening, like a great shed door.