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Luckily Mrs. Terrill, by her simple device of opening the folding doors that separated the drawing-room from the breakfast-room, was able to offer one fair sized apartment for the accommodation of her guests. Built almost identically on the same lines as that occupied by the Duke, No. 66 had been transferred (as the _Lewisham and Lee Mail_ in a breathless article described it) into "a veritable bower of roses equalling in stateliness and expensiveness the most splendid habitations of Belgravia and the West End."
It was Hal's idea that the conservatory at the back, and which, as in the Duke's house, was an _annexe_ to the breakfast room, should be converted, by means of three flags and a red carpet ("a lavish display of bunting," said the _Lewisham and Lee Mail_), into a sort of throne room. Hither Tuppy was conducted.