On the chimney-piece there was a tinder-box and a Prayer-book.

I do not remember anything else in the room.

Indeed, in those days people did not dream of writing-tables, and inkstands, and portfolios, and easy chairs, and what not.

We were taught to go into our bedrooms for the purposes of dressing, and sleeping, and praying.
Presently I was summoned to supper.

I followed the young lady who had been sent to call me, down the wide shallow stairs, into the great hall, through which I had first passed on my way to my Lady Ludlow's room.
There were four other young gentlewomen, all standing, and all silent, who curtsied to me when I first came in.