Was there any other point ?" "The crystal box?
Why was it ?" "To preserve my guests from the effects of the changes of temperature.
It would be a poor kindness to bring them back to my smoking-room drenched through, and with the seeds of a violent cold.

The crystal has to be kept warm, too, otherwise vapour would deposit, and you would have your view spoiled.

But must you really go?
Then here we are back in the smoking-room.

I hope that it will not be your last visit by many a one.
And if I may come down to Elmdene I should be very glad to do so.

This is the way through the museum." As Robert McIntyre emerged from the balmy aromatic atmosphere of the great house, into the harsh, raw, biting air of an English winter evening, he felt as though he had been away for a long visit in some foreign country.