I saw now that there was a sunken storey with a sort of area that ran all round the house, so that Brosna, except for its thatched summer-room, was a house of three storeys, not of two, as it appeared at first.
While I looked at it the evening shadows crept down upon it and seemed to enfold it in a greater loneliness.

But it was dearer to me than the great houses of the neighbourhood which were comfortable and well kept and inhabited.

And I was glad to think of the ordered room, with its grass plot before the window, and the fire set in the grate, ready to be lit when the master should come home..