She had very few regular boarders, and transients were not as numerous as they had been in the days of the stage-coaches.

Now commercial travellers and business men went to Alford overnight instead of remaining at East Westland.

Miss Hart used the same feather-beds which had once been esteemed so luxurious.

She kept them clean, well aired, and shaken, and she would not have a spring-bed or a hair mattress in the house.

She was conservatism itself.