She was a parlour-boarder, had a room to herself, and a fire in it when the weather was cold.

She was not held strictly to lesson hours; many delicacies in the way of food were provided for her, and Miss Frederick watched over her with a quite maternal solicitude.

When winter came she developed a troublesome cough, and the doctor recommended that a little suite of rooms looking south and leading out on the middle terrace of the garden should be given up to her.

There was a bedroom, an intermediate dressing-room, and then a little sitting-room built out upon the terrace, with a window-door opening upon it.
Here Mary Lant spent week after week.

Whenever lesson hours were done she clamoured for Marcie Boyce, and Marcella was always eager to go to her.