If I don't see her there, I will come back and leave our cards." "You might as well do that," said Phoebe, laughing, "for if she isn't thar, she's as like as not at the other end of the farm in the field where the colts is." The Cobhurst barn was an unusual, and, indeed, a remarkable structure.

It was not as old as the house, although it had been built many years ago by Mathias Butterwood, in a fashion to suit his own ideas of what a barn should be.
It was an enormous structure, a great deal larger than the house, and built of stone.

It stood against a high bluff, and there was an entrance on the level to the vast lower story, planned to accommodate Mr.
Butterwood's herd of fine cattle.

A little higher up, a wide causeway, supported by an arch, led into the second story, devoted to horses and all kinds of vehicles, and still higher, almost on a level with the house, there was a road, walled on each side, by which the loaded haywagons could be driven in upon the great third floor of the barn.
When Dora Bannister reached this barn, having followed a path which led to the lower story, she looked in at an open door, and received the impression of vast extent, emptiness, and the scent of hay.

She entered, looking about from side to side.