"The room is round and full of light. The fire has a screen, and...

"The room is round and full of light. The fire has a screen, and through narrow metal holes, carved in cunning shapes, comes a rosy glow. Rushlights burn on each wall, beside tapestries that cover windows against the cold. The tapestries here remind me of Nell’s neat croft, the arch she added to the door, and the glowing oilcloth across the holes in her walls. Like a tiny hall of a Lady or Lord, a woodland nobility. As if a queen lived there."
— from the novel Sinful Folk