I deemed this extravagance, but Ethelbertha said that servants thought a lot of a good carpet, and that it paid to humour them in little things, when practicable.
The bedroom had one big bed and a cot in it; but I could not see where the girl was going to sleep.

The architect had overlooked her altogether: that is so like an architect.

The house also suffered from the inconvenience common to residences of its class, of possessing no stairs, so that to move from one room to another it was necessary to burst your way up through the ceiling, or else to come outside and climb in through a window; either of which methods must be fatiguing when you come to do it often.
Apart from these drawbacks, however, the house was one that any doll agent would have been justified in describing as a "most desirable family residence"; and it had been furnished with a lavishness that bordered on positive ostentation.

In the bedroom there was a washing-stand, and on the washing-stand there stood a jug and basin, and in the jug there was real water.

But all this was as nothing.