Em "The Big House" uma das melhores descrições do que é regressar a casa:

“When I come back here, all the time I have been away seems like a dream. Everything is exactly the same here; the same conversation, the same jokes, the books in the same place on the same tables. My rooms just as I left them. One cannot believe that five months have passed away. Home seems very calm and comfortable; a refuge quite inaccessible to any of the vexations and troubles of the world.”

Christopher Sykes, Março 1854