Later on in the day I was sent for to the boudoir where she was consulting with Mrs.Grant as to the lodgment of Mr.Corbeck.

They were in doubt as to whether he should have a room close to Mr.Trelawny's or quite away from it, and had thought it well to ask my advice on the subject.

I came to the conclusion that he had better not be too near; for the first at all events, he could easily be moved closer if necessary.
When Mrs.Grant had gone, I asked Miss Trelawny how it came that the furniture of this room, the boudoir in which we were, was so different from the other rooms of the house.
"Father's forethought!" she answered.

"When I first came, he thought, and rightly enough, that I might get frightened with so many records of death and the tomb everywhere.

So he had this room and the little suite off it--that door opens into the sitting-room--where I slept last night, furnished with pretty things.