The woodwork had been freshly painted, and the walls were covered with silvery-flowered paper.

Over curtains of embroidered lace hung a drapery of apple-green damask, ornamented with deep white-silk fringe and heavy tassels.

"How kind of Gerald!" murmured she.

"He has done this because I expressed a wish to live here.

How ungrateful I was to doubt him in my thoughts!" She passed into the chamber, where she found a white French bedstead, on which were painted bouquets of roses.