Van Gogh Painting

Van Gogh Painting
As, shivering, she crept back under the bedclothes, she longed to give her sleeping husband a good shake, and in fancy she heard herself saying, "Bunting, get up! There's something strange and dreadful going on downstairs which we ought to know about."
But as she lay there, by her husband's side, listening with painful intentness for the slightest sound, she knew very well that she would do nothing of the sort.
Van Gogh Painting
What if the lodger did make a certain amount of mess - a certain amount of smell - in her nice clean kitchen? Was he not - was he not an almost perfect lodger? If they did anything to upset him, where could they ever hope to get another like him?
Van Gogh Painting