"I shall be most glad to.

I am so quiet myself as to be practically noiseless." The hall of the Carlings' house was their favorite sitting place in the evening.

It ran nearly the whole depth of the house, and had a wide fireplace at the end.

The further right hand portion was recessed by the stairway, which rose from about the middle of its length.
Miss Blake sat in a low chair, and John took its fellow at the other angle of the fireplace, which contained the smoldering remnant of a wood fire.

She had a bit of embroidery stretched over a circular frame like a drum-head.