Immediately opposite to us,
across the breadth of the room (some fifteen feet), is that other
door, by which Cayley went out and returned a few minutes ago.
In the right-hand wall, thirty feet away from us, are the French
windows. Crossing the room and going out by the opposite door,
we come into a passage, from which two rooms lead. The one on
the right, into which Cayley went, is less than half the length
of the office, a small, square room, which has evidently been
used some time or other as a bedroom. The bed is no longer
there, but there is a basin, with hot and cold taps, in a corner;
chairs; a cupboard or two, and a chest of drawers. The window
faces the same way as the French windows in the next room; but
anybody looking out of the bedroom window has his view on the
immediate right shut off by the outer wall of the office, which
projects, by reason of its greater length, fifteen feet further
into the lawn.
The room on the other side of the bedroom is a bathroom. The
three rooms together, in fact, form a sort of private suite;
used, perhaps, during the occupation of the previous owner, by
some invalid, who could not manage the stairs, but allowed by
Mark to fall into disuse, save for the living-room.
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