"She had no need to bid me not to go.

I think I should wait to see her return from that conversation." It was indeed Boleslas whom the Countess found in the salon, which she had chosen as the room the most convenient for the stormy explanation she anticipated.

It was isolated at the end of the hall, and was like a pendant to the terrace.

It formed, with the dining-room, the entire ground-floor, or, rather, the entresol of the house.

Madame Steno's apartments, as well as the other small salon in which Peppino was, were on the first floor, together with the rooms set apart for the Contessina and her German governess, Fraulein Weber, for the time being on a journey.
The Countess had not been mistaken.