It would only irritate him if he came and found her crying.

She tried to divert her mind by looking about the room.
There was very little to see.

Except that it was solidly built of good sound stone, the Craig Fernie hotel differed in no other important respect from the average of second-rate English inns.

There was the usual slippery black sofa--constructed to let you slide when you wanted to rest.

There was the usual highly-varnished arm-chair, expressly manufactured to test the endurance of the human spine.