Why not let me go through it my own way?
A few months to play the fool in--it isn't much to ask, and don't I know what it means to be old ?" She hadn't been along that passage before.

It was Martin's side of the house.

She hadn't given much thought to Martin's side of anything.

She tried a door and opened it, fumbled for the button that would turn the light on and found it.

It was a large and usefully fitted dressing room with a hanging cupboard that ran all along one wall, with several doors.