Yet it is strange I should neither see nor smell anything of it, having been in my study in that part of the house till above half an hour after ten.

Then I locked the doors of that part of the house where my wheat and other corn lay, and went to bed.
The servants had not been in bed a quarter of an hour when the fire began.

My wife being near her time, and very weak, I lay in the next chamber.

A little after eleven I heard "Fire!" cried in the street, next to which I lay.

If I had been in my own chamber, as usual, we had all been lost.