dressing-door

Updated: June 25, 2025

And he called out his coachman to drive at top speed to the rue de la Bruyere. Madame Schontz had given precise directions; monsieur could enter as master with the fullest understanding of madame; but, warned by the noise of monsieur's arrival, madame had so arranged that the sound of her dressing-door closing as women's doors do close when they are surprised, was to reach monsieur's ears.

Honoré de Balzac - Beatrix