Silent House

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The surrounding houses represented an eminently respectable appearance, with their immaculately clean steps, White-curtained windows, and neat boxes of flowers. The windows glittered like dia monds, the door-knobs and plates shone with a yel low lustre, and there were no sticks, or straws, or waste paper lying about to mar the tidy look of the square.