There were duets and trios, and quartetts and choruses, all arranged as in one piece of music.

Did I want silence from the birds?
I had but to draw a curtain over the aviary, and their song hushed as they found themselves left in the dark.

Another opening formed a window, not glazed, but on touching a spring, a shutter ascended from the floor, formed of some substance less transparent than glass, but still sufficiently pellucid to allow a softened view of the scene without.

To this window was attached a balcony, or rather hanging garden, wherein grew many graceful plants and brilliant flowers.

The apartment and its appurtenances had thus a character, if strange in detail, still familiar, as a whole, to modern notions of luxury, and would have excited admiration if found attached to the apartments of an English duchess or a fashionable French author.
Before I arrived this was Zee's chamber; she had hospitably assigned it to me.
Some hours after the waking up which is described in my last chapter, I was lying alone on my couch trying to fix my thoughts on conjecture as to the nature and genus of the people amongst whom I was thrown, when my host and his daughter Zee entered the room.