It stood in two narrow lengths, the one running at right angles to the other; and contained a large kitchen, two sitting rooms,--of which one was never used,--and four or five bed-rooms of which only three were furnished.
The servant girl occupied one, and the two ladies the others.

It was a blank place enough,--and most unlike that sort of cottage which English ladies are supposed to inhabit, when they take to cottage life.

There was no garden to it, beyond a small patch in which a few potatoes were planted.

It was so near to the ocean, so exposed to winds from the Atlantic, that no shrubs would live there.

Everything round it, even the herbage, was impregnated with salt, and told tales of the neighbouring waves.