A sentence in sequel to "To the Lighthouse"

Everything lay in ruins – under the bright sun’s glare; I looked around for a second time to scrutinize and suddenly it occurred to me that all these years this place had been kept populated by all these small creatures; I felt grateful to them.

The above sentence is written as a sequel to the first paragraph of the 9th Chapter of To the Lighthouse. Expand the above sentence into 2 more paragraphs. Try to show some story-line.

Here is Virginia Woolf's original para.

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a
sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long night
seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths,
fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. The saucepan had rusted and the
mat decayed. Toads had nosed their way in. Idly, aimlessly, the swaying
shawl swung to and fro. A thistle thrust itself between the tiles in the larder.
The swallows nested in the drawing- room; the floor was strewn
with straw; the plaster fell in shovelfuls; rafters were laid bare; rats carried
off this and that to gnaw behind the wainscots. Tortoise-shell butterflies
burst from the chrysalis and pattered their life out on the windowpane.
Poppies sowed themselves among the dahlias; the lawn waved
with long grass; giant artichokes towered among roses; a fringed carnation
flowered among the cabbages; while the gentle tapping of a weed at
the window had become, on winters' nights, a drumming from sturdy
trees and thorned briars which made the whole room green in summer.