The window, whence the candlelight had shone up the vale to the eyes of the bonfire group, was uncurtained, but the sill lay too high for a pedestrian on the outside to look over it into the room.
I followed him to the top of a very lofty stair, and there, right under the slates, were a couple of empty, dusty little rooms, uncarpeted and uncurtained, into which he led me.
The rooms had a strange echoing sound in them, — and the light came harshly and strongly in through the uncurtained windows, — seeming already unfamiliar and strange.