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Their approach displeased him, and he put an end to himself at the head of the little staircase leading from the tapestry-room down to my sitting-room. Why did he choose the staircase?" said Mrs. Boyce with light reflectiveness. "It won't do," said Marcella, shaking her head. "I know the Boyce they mean.

I should like to have seen the great parlour, and the tapestry-room with the story of Samson that bothered Rossetti so over his work. I should like to have seen the big oak bed, with its hangings embroidered with one of Morris's sweetest lyrics: "The wind's on the wold, And the night is a-cold."

A fresh staircase. A fresh door. "The tapestry-room," Lupin announced. The tapestries were not hung on the walls, but rolled, tied up with cord, ticketed; and, in addition, there were parcels of old fabrics which Lupin unfolded: wonderful brocades, admirable velvets, soft, faded silks, church vestments woven with silver and gold

"I came back, Rupert, because there were some things I wished to see for myself here," he answered frigidly. And going to the bell, rang it vigorously. On the servant's appearance, without reference to his brother, he himself, and very shortly, gave orders: "I shall dine here to-day. Have the tapestry-room made ready for me."

The ghost-room is the tapestry-room, from which there is a staircase down to the breakfast-room. A good deal of the tapestry is loose, and when there is any wind it flaps and flaps. Hence all the tales.... The servants are rather bewildered by the size of everything, and like me were almost too excited to sleep.... The children are wandering blissfully about, exploring everything.

His conversation was, however, interrupted by Lady Castlerich, who said in her clear cracked voice: 'We must put Agnes in the haunted room amid the tapestries. 'No, no, don't frighten her, whispered the Major. 'But, father, I am not so easily frightened as that. 'Who haunts the tapestry-room? 'A nun, dear, so they say; Morelands was a monastery once a nunnery, I mean.