abud. Don't come further. Here are your slippers.
He places one of the Windsor chairs for her on which she sits while he takes off her wet shoes and puts on her slippers which he found on the table. Then he takes her wet shoes to the fireplace. She sits still. Then he goes to the door and brings in his own boots from the little porch and puts them in the fireplace too. Then he locks the door and hangs up the key beside it. Then he stands looking at her; but she does not speak, so he takes the candle, lifts it above his head and walks to the dresser.
abud. [Encouragingly.] Our dresser . . Thomas Jupp made that. Plates and dishes. Here's Uncle Prestige's clock.
ann. Past seven.
abud. That's upstairs. Table and bench, deal. Oak settle . . solid.
ann. Charming.
abud. Windsor chairs . . Mother's sampler.
ann. Home.
abud. Is it as you wish? I have been glad at your not seeing it until to-night.
ann. I'm sinking into the strangeness of the place.