Stop, doctor, tell me, is she dead ?" "How can I tell till I have seen her ?" the doctor answered, roughly shaking him off, and passing through the door.
Bryngelly Vicarage was a very simply constructed house.

On entering the visitor found himself in a passage with doors to the right and left.
That to the right led to the sitting-room, that to the left to the dining-room, both of them long, low and narrow chambers.

Following the passage down for some seven paces, it terminated in another which ran at right angles to it for the entire length of the house.

On the further side of this passage were several bedroom doors and a room at each end.
That at the end to the right was occupied by Beatrice and her sister, the next was empty, the third was Mr.Granger's, and the fourth the spare room.

This, with the exception of the kitchens and servants' sleeping place, which were beyond the dining-room, made up the house.
Fires had been lit in both of the principal rooms.