This function returns the number of files in the directory.

Human coprophobia appears to have developed gradually, and was reflected in an increasing demand for, first, privacy for defaecation […]

The couple were getting busy in the front room when the doorbell rang.

“Do not be afright,” he continued, after a pause; “do not be afright, my dear young ladies, I am quite harmless—a harmless old man—I would not shed a pigeon's blood.