Question

Eventually what happened to the house​

Answer 1

In the final hours of the house's "life" it prepares itself for the evening with cards and cocktails. It has operated as if the family were there all day long. As the house sits and waits for the cards to be played and the drinks to be drunk a wind outside blows a liquor bottle over and the inside the house a fire starts. The mice who clean up messes scurry out to help and the faucets try to douse the flames, but the house begins to die and finally all there is that is left is silence and smoke.