One of the corner houses comprised a grocer's shop, and this house had been robbed of its just proportion of garden so that the seigneurial garden-plot might be triflingly larger than the others.

The terrace was not a terrace of cottages, but of houses rated at from twenty-six to thirty-six pounds a year; beyond the means of artisans and petty insurance agents and rent-collectors.

And further, it was well built, generously built; and its architecture, though debased, showed some faint traces of Georgian amenity.

It was admittedly the best row of houses in that newly settled quarter of the town.

In coming to it out of Freehold Villas Mr.Skellorn obviously came to something superior, wider, more liberal.
Suddenly Hilda heard her mother's voice, in a rather startled conversational tone, and then another woman speaking; then the voices died away.