I assume you are referring to the changes in the home of
Silas Marner after he has taken in Eppie and in Book II of this great novel. We can find
the answer to this question in Chapter 16, which transpires sixteen years after the
decision of Silas to take in Eppie and look after her as his own. Clearly a number of
things have changed, and growing up with Eppie, who is now a young woman, has created
massive transformations both in Silas himself and in his abode. Note how the text
describes his house now:
The presence of this happy animal life was not
the only change which had come over this interior of the stone cottage. There was no bed
now in the living-room, and the small space was well filled with decent furniture, all
bright and clean enough to satisfy Dolly Winthrop's eye. The oaken table and
three-cornered oaken chair were hardly what was likely to be seen in so poor a cottage:
they had come, with the beds and other things, from the Red House, for Mr. Godfrey Cass,
as everyone said, did very kindly by the
weaver...
Thus clearly the
interior of the cottage has changed thanks to the generosity of Godfrey, giving Eppie
and Silas some lovely, "decent" furniture that they are able to use and enjoy in their
lives.
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