Rewrite these sentences to eliminate the word ‘and’. There may be several ways of doing this. For example:

I scrambled to my feet and looked around.

1 I asked for a night’s lodging and she said I was welcome to the bed in the loft.

2 I fitted my key into the door and just then I noticed a man and he was at my elbow.

3 I walked into the room and there was an old man and he was at the head of the table and he rose.

These sentences are based on sentences in the novels of John Buchan.