Sunset often afforded rich effects, but they were for solitary musing.
A sitting-room, a bedroom, a kitchen.

But the kitchen was called dining-room, or even parlour at need; for the cooking-range lent itself to concealment behind an ornamental screen, the walls displayed pictures and bookcases, and a tiny scullery which lay apart sufficed for the coarser domestic operations.

This was Amy's territory during the hours when her husband was working, or endeavouring to work.

Of necessity, Edwin Reardon used the front room as his study.

His writing-table stood against the window; each wall had its shelves of serried literature; vases, busts, engravings (all of the inexpensive kind) served for ornaments.
A maid-servant, recently emancipated from the Board school, came at half-past seven each morning, and remained until two o'clock, by which time the Reardons had dined; on special occasions, her services were enlisted for later hours.