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The Roundabout is the name that Peter has given to the little house in Dorset Street, Chelsea, that he has chosen to live in with his bride. High spirits lead to nicknames and Peter was in the very highest of spirits when he took the house. The name alluded both to the shape round bow-windowed like fat bulging little walls, lemon-coloured, and to the kind of life that Peter intended to lead.
He looked at her steadily, holding her eyes with his own, for a space; then left her and went on his way. He went into his house, the door of which stood open to the night. In the airless, bow-windowed room, upon the untidy sofa where he had left her, his wife was lying dead. No inquest was held on Horace Kilbourne's wife. The doctor had attended her almost daily.
But her stock of gowns and finery was so very scanty, and no one understood how to set off her charms so well as the obliging, experienced old woman, who had an expedient for every emergency. Retiring to her little bow-windowed room, she examined her store of clothes. There, too, lay her royal lover's gift, the glittering star.
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