As is usually the case with people who go over houses, Mr. Guppy and his friend are dead beat before they have well begun. They straggle about in wrong places, look at wrong things, don't care for the right things, gape when more rooms are opened, exhibit profound depression of spirits, and are clearly knocked up. In each successive chamber that they enter, Mrs. Rouncewell, who is as upright as the house itself, rests apart in a window-seat or other such nook and listens with stately approval to Rosa's exposition. Her grandson is so attentive to it that Rosa is shyer than ever--and prettier. Thus they pass on from room to room, raising the pictured Dedlocks for a few brief minutes as the young gardener admits the light, and reconsigning them to their graves as he shuts it out again. It appears to the afflicted Mr. Guppy and his inconsolable friend that there is no end to the Dedlocks, whose family greatness seems to consist in their never having done anything to distinguish themselves for seven hundred years.

As is usually the case with people who go over houses, Mr. Guppy and his friend straggle about in the wrong places, don't care for the right things, yawn when more rooms are opened, and are clearly tired out. In each chamber that they enter, Mrs. Rouncewell, as upright as the house itself, sits in a window-seat and listens with stately approval to Rosa's exposition. Her grandson is so attentive that Rosa is shyer than ever - and prettier. Thus they pass from room to room, viewing the pictured Dedlocks. It appears to Mr. Guppy and his friend that there is no end to these Dedlocks.
