He remembered afterwards that he had been particularly collected and careful, trying all the time not to get smeared with blood....

He pulled out the keys at once, they were all, as before, in one bunch on a steel ring.

He ran at once into the bedroom with them.

It was a very small room with a whole shrine of holy images.
Against the other wall stood a big bed, very clean and covered with a silk patchwork wadded quilt.

Against a third wall was a chest of drawers.