Kate piloted me upstairs to the spare room . `` This is fixed up much nicer than it was when I was here before , '' she said , looking around . `` Of course , Hannah and Ted were just starting out then and they had to be economical . They must have prospered , to be able to afford such furniture as this . Well , turn in , Phil . Wo n't it be rather jolly to sleep between sheets once more ? '' We slept long and soundly until half-past eight the next morning ; and dear knows if we would have wakened then of our own accord . But I heard somebody saying in a very harsh , gruff voice , `` Here , you two , wake up ! I want to know what this means . '' We two did wake up , promptly and effectually . I never wakened up so thoroughly in my life before . Standing in our room were three people , one of them a man . He was a big , grey-haired man with a bushy black beard and an angry scowl . Beside him was a woman -- a tall , thin , angular personage with red hair and an indescribable bonnet . She looked even crosser and more amazed than the man , if that were possible . In the background was another woman -- a tiny old lady who must have been at least eighty . She was , in spite of her tininess , a very striking-looking personage ; she was dressed all in black , and had snow-white hair , a dead-white face , and snapping , vivid , coal-black eyes . She looked as amazed as the other two , but she did n't look cross . I knew something must be wrong -- fearfully wrong -- but I did n't know what . Even in my confusion , I found time to think that if that disagreeable-looking red-haired woman was Hannah Brewster , Kate must have had a queer taste in school friends .
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