Now and then he heard Helen; she appeared to be re-arranging their scant furnishings.

Among the scant furnishings, his high thoughts, set in noble words, gleamed like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Not pitch black, but dark enough to give her trouble making out more than the vague outlines of scant furnishings.

Down the middle of the chamber ran a long square-ended table of oak, very plain like all the rest of the room's scant furnishings.