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Kate Wilhelm - Stranger in the House.htm file:///I|/temp/Kate%20Wilhelm%20-%20Stranger%20in%20the%20House.htm[2012-10-10 18:37:58] St r a n ger I n t h e Hou s e Ka t e Wilh elm ROBERT DROVE SLOWLY UP THE DRIVEWAY TO THE monster of a house, grinning at it happily. Mandy laughed aloud. The house was a joke played on a dignified dowager, after all. It was a three-story mixture of fieldstone and wide siding with a porch that ran around three sides of it. The original building had been constructed in 1820, it was thought, and the upper floors had been added later. There were two-story-high columns dwarfing the double front doors; windows on the first floor bowed outward in pairs symmetrically spaced, and the windows above had been lined up with them. But on the third floor it looked as if the builder had fallen heir to an assortment of windows of which no two were alike in size, shape, or operation. Some opened outward, others raised from the bottom up, some were louvered
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