Then, when she entered the workroom, where Hubert and his wife had just seated themselves, after having arranged their frames for embroidery, she said: "Oh! how soundly I did sleep! I had quite forgotten that we had promised to finish this chasuble for next Sunday." This workroom, the windows of which opened upon the garden, was a large apartment, preserved almost entirely in its original state.

The two principal beams of the ceiling, and the three visible cross-beams of support, had not even been whitewashed, and they were blackened by smoke and worm-eaten, while, through the openings of the broken plaster, here and there, the laths of the inner joists could be seen.

On one of the stone corbels, which supported the beams, was the date 1463, without doubt the date of the construction of the building.

The chimney-piece, also in stone, broken and disjointed, had traces of its original elegance, with its slender uprights, its brackets, its frieze with a cornice, and its basket-shaped funnel terminating in a crown.

On the frieze could be seen even now, as if softened by age, an ingenious attempt at sculpture, in the way of a likeness of Saint Clair, the patron of embroiderers.