She opened the door with no trouble and stepped inside. The house was darker than she expected, dim and dusty, but crammed almost to bursting with books. The sheer number of them startled her; she had never seen so many built-ins aside from a library. There was very little hominess about the sparse furnishings and barren, dirty floors. Everything in it needed a good wash. It was obvious that the house had been home to nothing more than spiders for a great deal of time. 