Henri Matisse Painting

Henri Matisse Painting
In any case, where would have been the good of worrying about the lodger's funny ways? Of course, Mr. Sleuth was eccentric. If he hadn't been, as Bunting funnily styled it, "just a leetle touched upstairs," he wouldn't be here, living this strange, solitary life in lodgings. He would be living in quite a different sort of way with some of his relatives, or with a friend of his own class.
Henri Matisse Painting
There came a time when Mrs. Bunting, looking back - as even the least imaginative of us are apt to look back to any part of our own past lives which becomes for any reason poignantly memorable - wondered how soon it was that she had discovered that her lodger was given to creeping out of the house at a time when almost all living things prefer to sleep.
Henri Matisse Painting