There were in all five windows; of which three seemed to belong to an empty room, and two to another filled with people.

The windows of this one stood wide open, and the racket within was prodigious.

Also the company seemed to consist entirely of men.

But what surprised me most was to see that the tables at which these guests drank and supped--as the clatter of knives and plates told me, and the shouting of toasts--were drawn up in a semicircle about a tall bed-canopy reaching almost to the ceiling in the far right-hand corner.

The bed itself was hidden from me by the broad backs of two sportsmen seated in line with it and nursing a bottle apiece under their chairs.
Now while I wondered, Mr.Jack Rogers passed briskly through the room with the closed windows towards this chamber of revelry, preceded by an elderly woman with a smoking dish in her hands.