That afternoon I watched long and eagerly from the
sitting-room window.
On my asking for Miss Verinder, she stared, trembled, and would no doubt have curtseyed next, if Miss Verinder herself had not cut that ceremony short, by suddenly opening her
sitting-room door.
"I know one thing," he said to himself, as he stumbled back in the
sitting-room, and sat down; "I'll let that fellow alone, after this!
A second door communicates with the
sitting-room, and has a ventilator in the upper part of it.
The
sitting-room contained, besides the armchair, two other chairs, a piano, a three-legged table, and a cosy corner.
Emily returned to the
sitting-room: not to rest (after all that she had heard), but to think.
The lightning quickened, and lit the
sitting-room horribly with its lurid glare; the thunder rolled nearer and nearer over the black gulf of the moor.
Having reached his end successfully in both these cases, he returned to the hotel, and found Noel Vanstone nursing his offended dignity in the landlady's
sitting-room. Three ladies' maids had appeared to pass their examination, and had all, on coming to the question of wages, impudently declined accepting the place.
She need not have done so, however, for the door of the
sitting-room was not opened.