Miss Verinder went back to the sitting-room, and I went upstairs to Mr.
I followed Betteredge out of the room, and told him to remove the medicine-chest into Miss Verinder's sitting-room.
It was between one and two o'clock at night, as Cassy was returning from her ministrations to poor Tom, that she heard the sound of wild shrieking, whooping, halloing, and singing, from the
sitting-room, mingled with the barking of dogs, and other symptoms of general uproar.
I take up my traveling-bag; I leave my letters on the
sitting-room table; and I descend the stairs to the house door.
Leonard tidied up the
sitting-room, and began to prepare their evening meal.
In the
sitting-room, the state of affairs, perpetually changing, now presented itself under another new aspect.
Manson Mingott's flesh had long since made it impossible for her to go up and down stairs, and with characteristic independence she had made her reception rooms upstairs and established herself (in flagrant violation of all the New York proprieties) on the ground floor of her house; so that, as you sat in her
sitting-room window with her, you caught
Later in the day Philip, awaking from an uneasy doze, heard voices in his
sitting-room. A friend had come in to see Griffiths.
"Captain Granet," she said almost in a whisper, "of course you'll think we are all mad, but would you mind coming upstairs into my little
sitting-room?"