He was the noisiest sleeper ever I set up with.

Shall we go upstairs ?" The narrow front stairs creaked as loudly in the daytime as they had on the previous night, but the long hall on the upper floor was neither dark nor terrifying.

Nevertheless it was with just a suspicion of dread that Mrs.Barnes approached the large room at the end of the hall and the small one adjoining it.

Her common-sense had returned and she was naturally brave, but an experience such as hers had been is not forgotten in a few hours.

However, she was determined that no one should know her feelings; therefore she was the first to enter the little room.
"Here's where Laban bunked," said the captain.