Go back to your chamber and wait." "What an egregious muff he is!" she said to herself, contemptuously.
"There is no cleverness in fooling such an imbecile as that.

I am going on velvet so far; I only hope my lady may be as easily dealt with as my lady's only son." My lady's only son went straight to a door down the corridor, quite at the other extremity, and opened it.
It was a lady's dressing-room evidently.

Laid out, all ready for wear, was a lady's morning toilet complete, and without more ado Sir Everard confiscated the whole concern.

At the white cashmere robe alone he caviled.
"This is too gay; I must find a more sober garment.

All the maid-servants in the house would recognize this immediately." He went to one of the closets, searched there, and presently reappeared with a black silk dress.