Between the central door and
the one on the left, those three windows belong to a large room once
used as a chapel, but since then as a guest room for the
accommodation of the women whom we shall see coming here to learn of
Jesus. In this room, Nestorian converts first partook of the Lord's
supper with the missionaries. The left of the three windows directly
over these, with the rose-bush in it, belongs to Miss Fiske's
private room, and the other two to her sitting room. This the pupils
have named "The Bethel," and it is so connected that the teacher can
step into recitation room, dining room, or kitchen, as occasion
requires. The last named apartment is on the rear of the building.
The largest recitation room, by a curious necessity, is in the form
of a carpenter's wooden square, with the teacher's desk in the angle
between the two compartments. One of these is on the back side of
the building, out of sight; the other, extending across the end, is
represented in front by the window at the extreme left.
Over the central door is, first, the steward's room, and then
closets over that; for one of the results of the successive
alterations and additions is, that parts of the building are two,
and other parts three, stories high.
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