I had a curiosity about her room.

It had been the scene of much I did not understand the night before.

Should I find any traces there of that search which had finally ended over my head in the attic?
I was met at the door by Ellen.

She wore a look of dismay which I felt fully accounted for when I looked inside.

Disorder reigned from one end of the room to the other, transcending any picture I may have formed in my own mind concerning its probable condition.