However, on entering the latter's public room, the priest saw no sign of the gentleman, and concluded that he must have been mistaken.

This public room, which had a kind of glazed verandah overlooking the Bois, contained a few chairs and tables, the latter with marble tops.

On the first floor there were four or five private rooms reached by a narrow passage.

Though the doors were open the place had as yet scarcely emerged from its winter's rest.

There was nobody about, and on all sides one found the dampness common to establishments which, from lack of custom, are compelled to close from November until March.