"You can't see," said he, "you must let me go in with you and get a light." He spoke in a tone of short politeness.

He was in his heart utterly out of patience with this strange, stiff old woman.
"I guess I can find one.

I hate to make you so much trouble." Mr.Tuxbury stepped forward with decision, and began fumbling in his pocket for a match.

"Of course you cannot find one in the dark, Mrs.
Maxwell," said he, with open exasperation.
She said nothing more, but stood meekly in the hall until a light flared out from a room on the left.

The lawyer had found a lamp, he was himself somewhat familiar with the surroundings, but on the way to it he stumbled over a chair with an exclamation.