It opened on a bare little place, once perhaps the surgery of some doctor in small practice, but now a bedroom.

A door gave at the farther side on a tiny verandah, and this and the one window were wide open.

An oil lamp stood on a table by the bed and revealed a crowd of people.

A man lay on the camp-bed, lying aslant for he was too long for it.

A sheet covered his lower limbs, but his breast and shoulders had been bared.