sitting-bed-room

Updated: May 18, 2025

I could not complain of a limited selection, for a "to let" or "apartments" was peeping out of every second window. I went into the first attractive house that I saw, and interviewed the rather obtuse and grasping old lady who owned it. A sitting-bed-room was to be had for thirteen shillings a week.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Stark Munro Letters