noon
And it was into this middle room on the second floor Arthur had been put , and which he found quite too small for his use . So he ordered both the doors to be opened and took possession of the suite , pacing them several times , and then measuring their length , and breadth , and height , and the distance between the windows . Then he inspected the wing on that side of the house , and , going into the yard , looked the building over from all points , occasionally marking a few lines on the paper he held in his hand . Before noon every room in the house , except the one where Dolly lay sick with a headache had been visited and examined minutely , while Frank watched him nervously , wondering if he would think they had greatly injured anything , or had expended too much money on furniture . But Arthur was thinking of none of these things , and found fault with nothing except the drain and the gas fixtures , all of which he declared bad , saying that the latter must be changed at once , and that ten pounds of copperas must be bought immediately and put down the drain , and that quantities of chloride of lime and carbolic acid must be placed where there was the least danger of vegetable decomposition . ` I am very sensitive to smells , and afraid of them , too , for they breed malaria and disease of all kinds , ' he said to the cook , whose nose and chin both were high in the air , not on account of any obnoxious odor , but because of this unreasonable meddling with what she considered her own affairs . If things were to go on in this way , she said to the house-maid , and if that man was going to poke his nose into drains , and gas-pipes , and kerosene lamps , and bowls of sour milk which she might have forgotten , she should give notice to quit .