It was a house which had the air of a place hastily made inhabitable for some special reason.

There were evidences that money had been spent, but that there had been no time to arrange things.
I have seen something of the kind before, and when I was handed into my patient's sitting-room, thought I knew the type I should find.

It is always more or less the same,--a girl or a very young woman, pretty and refined and frightened, or pretty and vulgar and 'carrying it off' with transparent pretences and airs and graces.

Anything more remote from what I expected you absolutely cannot conceive." "Not young and pretty ?" "About thirty-five or six.

A fresh, finely built woman with eyes as candid as a six-year-old girl's.