The only other alternative was to lodge her in the little modern lean-to, which I have already described as being tacked on to the side of the old building.

It contained three cottage-rooms, and they might be made barely habitable for a young lady.

But then those rooms were occupied by Morgan.

His books were in one, his bed was in another, his pipes and general lumber were in the third.

Could I expect him, after the sour similitudes he had used in reference to our expected visitor, to turn out of his habitation and disarrange all his habits for her convenience?
The bare idea of proposing the thing to him seemed ridiculous; and yet inexorable necessity left me no choice but to make the hopeless experiment.