Amanda Pratt's cottage-house was raised upon two banks above the road-level.

Here and there the banks showed irregular patches of yellow-green, where a little milky-stemmed plant grew.

It had come up every spring since Amanda could remember.
There was a great pink-lined shell on each side of the front door-step, and the path down over the banks to the road was bordered with smaller shells.

The house was white, and the front door was dark green, with an old-fashioned knocker in the centre.
There were four front windows, and the roof sloped down to them; two were in Amanda's parlor, and two were in Mrs.Field's.

She rented half of her house to Mrs.Jane Field.
There was a head at each of Amanda's front windows.