"But never mind.

It has always seemed to me that there were too many houses in the world.

Most houses are traps into which everything enters, and out of which nothing comes.
It always grieves me to see tradesmen pouring sustenance in at the back door, and no result or justification coming out of the front door.

I often think that only the houses that men's bodies have deserted are really inhabited." "It was I who burnt your house down, Richard," said Miss Ford.

"But it doesn't matter.