Mr.Trelawny, seeing me looking at this, said, correctly interpreting my thoughts: "Yes! it is new.

I hung it there myself on purpose.

I knew we should have to lower great weights; and as I did not wish to take too many into my confidence, I arranged a tackle which I could work alone if necessary." We set to work at once; and before nightfall had lowered, unhooked, and placed in the positions designated for each by Trelawny, all the great sarcophagi and all the curios and other matters which we had taken with us.
It was a strange and weird proceeding, the placing of those wonderful monuments of a bygone age in that green cavern, which represented in its cutting and purpose and up-to-date mechanism and electric lights both the old world and the new.

But as time went on I grew more and more to recognise the wisdom and correctness of Mr.Trelawny's choice.
I was much disturbed when Silvio, who had been brought into the cave in the arms of his mistress, and who was lying asleep on my coat which I had taken off, sprang up when the cat mummy had been unpacked, and flew at it with the same ferocity which he had previously exhibited.

The incident showed Margaret in a new phase, and one which gave my heart a pang.