private-rooms

Updated: June 11, 2025

If she had seen the marquis, what could have brought him secretly into the house and up into the hall of the bed-rooms, at that hour of the night? And why did he not answer her, when she called him? It surely could not have been the marquis whom she saw! He never would have crept into the house and up to their private-rooms, at that hour of the night, or fled from her, when she called him?

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - The Lost Lady of Lone