Chapter 6Carlton House was all that Salrina had expected it to be.
The splendid hall decorated with Ionic columns of brown Sienna marble was very impressive.
As they walked up the graceful double staircase, she so wished that she was not so agitated about what might happen and could really enjoy what she was experiencing.
Beyond the music room they were led into first there was a drawing room decorated in the Chinese taste that Salrina had read many criticisms about in the newspapers.
When it had first been finished, she remembered her mother saying to her father,
“It seems incredible that the mercer’s bill to visit China and buy the furniture for just one room amounted to six thousand eight hundred pounds!”
“I agree it seems incredible,” her father replied. “I would rather have spen
