Nat was looking into a single living and dining room, with a sofa and some chairs near the now empty fireplace on the one end, and a dining area on the other end. There were stairs on the right, and what looked like the front door on the left. The room was spacious and the furniture looked decent, but the wallpaper looked rather old and outdated and the room lacked decoration, safe for some portraits and photographs on the walls, some delicate plates on display in the cabinet behind the dining table, and a fancy clock and porcelain birds on the mantlepiece.

But Mr. Appleton was just taking those off and he carried them upstairs without a word to Nat. Jenny, meanwhile, was spreading blankets over the sofa. She looked at Nat uncomfortably and when her master was gone, she said. "There you go. There's an extra blanket over there on the chair, should ye need it."