Death Hiding in the House

Again from The Tiger's Wife: "He looked in the hall cupboards and the china cabinets, the armoires where boxes of old newspapers and diagrams were kept. He looked in his father's room, always empty, in the wardrobe where his father kept his old military uniform, under the beds, behind bathroom doors. Back and forth he went thorough the house, latching and unlatching windows with useless determination, expecting, at any moment, to look inside the oven and find Death squatting in it--a man, just a man, a patient-looking winged man with the unmoving eyes of a thief." (p. 244)