Malvina smiled at her.
Then she went towards the door and as she reached it, she turned and looked back.
She thought that no woman could be lovelier than Blanche looked in her glamorous blue four-poster bed.
Malvina realised now that a white bearskin served as a rug and on a console table stood a figure of Christ.
The maid closed the door of the bedroom.
Next to it was another door which Malvina realised was Blanche’s bathroom where the bath was made of the finest marble.
It suddenly made her recall that the Comte, droning on towards the end of dinner, had told her,
“Blanche has two hundred bottles of Montebello poured into her bath when she is feeling particularly tired!”
The maid took her downstairs.
The large pile of flowers in the hall had increased considerably since she had
