Then he trudged slowly up to his room.
"Dear me," he said once more.
Arrived in his bedroom, he began to read.

But after a few minutes he shut his book, took the lamp to the looking-glass and brushed his hair.
Then he put on a black coat and a white silk tie.

There was a speck of dust on the coat.

He carefully removed that, and then extinguished the lamp.
On his way downstairs he met Marie, who gazed at him in astonishment.
It was quite unusual for him to be seen again when he had once come up from _table-d'hote_.

She noticed the black coat and the white silk tie too, and reported on these eccentricities to her colleague Anna.
The Disagreeable Man meanwhile had reached the Concert Hall.