Presently they reached the untidy-looking avenue, and a few minutes later arrived at the house.

Quest looked around him in something like bewilderment.
"Say, fancy keeping a big place like this, all overgrown and like a wilderness!" he exclaimed.

"If the Professor can't afford a few gardeners, why doesn't he take a comfortable flat down town." "I think it's a horrible place," Lenora agreed.

"I hope I never come here again." "Pretty well obsessed, these scientific men get," Quest muttered.

"I suppose this is the front door." They passed under the portico and knocked.