The place looked almost tempting before he had done with it, and he looked about him with satisfied eyes at the close of his labours.
There was a convenient spout, meant to carry off the rain water from the complex level of the old roof, which made an excellent substitute for a dust shoot.

It could be got at from this place without difficulty, and Edred shot down his rubbish without any trouble through a funnel-like piece of wood he and his brothers had contrived for the purpose many years before.

Then he stood quite still at the aperture whence the soft breeze came blowing in, lost in thought.
"It doth get very hot here in the summer days," he remarked, "and in especial at this end of the room, where it abuts upon the leads.
It is cooler yonder, but then it is also darker.

The air and the light come in at this side, but so does the heat likewise.

And how thirsty one gets, too! My throat is parched and dry.