Here and there the oak flooring itself was uncertain.
The rooms, whether large or small, all presented a like aspect of potential beauty and comfort, utterly uncared for and forlorn.

There were many rooms, but none more than scantily furnished, and a number of them were stripped bare.

Betty found herself wondering how long a time it had taken the belongings of the big place to dwindle and melt away into such bareness.
"There was a time, I suppose, when it was all furnished," she said.
"All these rooms were shut up when I came here," Rosy answered.

"I suppose things worth selling have been sold.

When pieces of furniture were broken in one part of the house, they were replaced by things brought from another.