I got this answer from checking the material in the room. Plates, Table, "if you eat at the table", and some more stuff like that. It's pretty obvious that the setting is a dining room.
In the 'Black Snake' the spaker' is fearful so is the speaker in 'A Narrow fellow in the Grass'. Of course, there is a combination of feelling other that fear, but this last one is present in both titles.
