Hello! I thought this was an empty house.
There's a stove and a chair, such as it is.

Whoever lived here last didn't take away all their furniture.

Let's go into the front rooms." The first room they entered was evidently the dining-room.

It was quite bare of furniture.

The next, however, that which Emily had entered by the window, contained another stove, a ramshackle what-not, and a broken-down, ragged sofa.
"Oh!" gasped Miss Howes, pointing to the sofa, "see! see! This ISN'T an empty house.