The house stood quite close to the road; indeed, only a little bricked-path separated it from the sidewalk.

All the ground was at the sides and back.

The house was a square old affair with a row of half-windows in the third-story, or attic, and considerable good old panel-work and ornamentation about it.

On the right side of the house was a large old flower-garden, now just beginning to assert itself anew; on the left were the stable and some out-buildings, with a grassy oval of lawn in the centre of a sweep of drive; in the rear was a kitchen-garden and a field rising to the railroad, for railroads circled all Banbridge in their vises of iron arms.

A station was only a short distance farther up this same street.