The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton

Kate Clephane was wakened by the slant of Riviera sun across her bed.

The hotel was different; it was several rungs higher on the ladder / than the Minorque et l'Univers, as its name -- the Petit Palais -- plainly / indicated. The bedroom, too, was bigger, more modern, more freshly / painted; and the corner window of the tiny adjoining _salon_ actually / clipped a wedge of sea in its narrow frame.