Go!--and judge for yourself, my dear, if that good lady has not given up to you the prettiest room in the house!' With those words, Lady Montbarry left Miss Lockwood to make a hasty toilet for dinner.
The new room at once produced a favourable impression on Agnes.

The large window, opening into a balcony, commanded an admirable view of the canal.

The decorations on the walls and ceiling were skilfully copied from the exquisitely graceful designs of Raphael in the Vatican.
The massive wardrobe possessed compartments of unusual size, in which double the number of dresses that Agnes possessed might have been conveniently hung at full length.

In the inner corner of the room, near the head of the bedstead, there was a recess which had been turned into a little dressing-room, and which opened by a second door on the inferior staircase of the hotel, commonly used by the servants.
Noticing these aspects of the room at a glance, Agnes made the necessary change in her dress, as quickly as possible.

On her way back to the drawing-room she was addressed by a chambermaid in the corridor who asked for her key.