Besides, she wished to enjoy complete liberty in her love affairs.

Her friend, who was like a mother to her, would facilitate her desire.

The two would live in her house.
Ferragut was greatly surprised to discover the extreme size of the apartment occupied by the doctor.

Beyond her salon there was an endless number of rooms, somewhat dismantled and without furniture, a labyrinth of partitioned walls and passageways, in which the captain was always getting lost, and having to appeal to Freya for aid; all the doors of the stair-landings that appeared unrelated to the green screen of the office were so many other exits from the same dwelling.
The lovers were lodged in the extreme end, as though living in a separate house.

One of the doors was for them only.