The house was small, but very strongly built, with thick plate-glass windows in the lower rooms, against which the wind and the rain were hissing as though an engine were letting off steam close by.
ALONE ON A WIDE WIDE SEA 26 rendered yet more hospitable to the sight by the table being equipped for a two o'clock dinner.  The house was small, but very strongly built, with thick plate-glass windows in the lower rooms, against which the wind and the rain were hissing as though an engine were letting off steam close by.  A couple of maid-servants had been left in the house.