All round the side of the room were set coloured lights, shaded and dim.

Coming from the bright outer sunlight, the place in its shadowed state seemed half-sepulchral.
When the Coroner, Orlando, the Young Doctor and the others had accustomed themselves to the dimness, they saw at the end of the chamber--for such, in effect, it had been made with its trappings and decorations--a figure seated upon the ground.

Near by the figure, on either hand, there were standards bearing banners, and the staffs holding the banners were, bound in white silk, with long streamers hanging down.

Half enclosing the banners were fanlike screens.

Along the walls also were flags with toothed edges.