<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/i1pJboz.jpg)</div>Lisle led the guests through the first floor of the house. It was probably just a trick of the poor light and the unfamiliarity of the place, but it seemed to have become bigger than when they first came in. Lisle showed them to three adjacent bedrooms, with any baggage the women had bought being placed outside the door.<br/><br/>"Thank you so much for doing this, young ladies." she said, looking round as the doors were opened. "If you hadn't shown up....oh, I don't know what I'd have done! I do hope you'll have a good night's rest, and some sweet dreams."<br/><br/>She looked at Aiden for a moment, blinking rapidly for a moment and looking incongruously moved. "Well....who knows? We never have as much time as we think we do, do we? But maybe I'll get to hear some of yours. I'd like that, you know."<br/><br/>With that slightly strange postscript, she was hobbling off down the corridor.<br/><br/>Within, the rooms were....well, they were dry and warm, that was a good start. The electric radiators were a lone reminder of normality in the Gothic grandeur of the designs. The beds were four-posters that went up to the ceiling, with curtains that could be drawn for complete privacy--and given the curtains had been removed from the windows, would probably be necessary for keeping the sun out in the morning. The wardrobes were ajar and for anyone who hadn't packed any nightclothes, there could be seen long white nightgowns that looked like they were straight off the cover of a romance novel. The rooms were largely empty otherwise, with only a few remaining pieces of furniture and other items. On one wall in Karina's room, there was a large mirror, long since crusted over with dust and cobwebs. In Rebecca's, there was a folded stepladder leaning against the cupboard, as if it had been left there when the cleaning was half done. And in Aiden's, there was a framed photo on the wall of<em>Ballyheige Bay, 1906</em>, looking like a portait photo of a family of five. Mother and father were dressed in stern Edwardian dress, a young boy in a sailor suit was looking at the camera while holding some sort of lizard in his hand, while two girls looked to have started moving during the exposure, given that their faces were blurred.