You have no idea, Herbert, how poor and how empty the place looked to me now.

I was glad to get out of it, and go upstairs.

There was a lumber-room at the top of the house; I used to play in it, all by myself.

More changes met me the moment I opened the door." "Changes for the better ?" "My dear, it couldn't have changed for the worse! My dirty old play-room was cleaned and repaired; the lumber taken away, and a nice little bed in one corner.

Some clerk in the City had taken the room--I shouldn't have known it again.