Apartments in Houses

a sojourn away

I’d stopped innocently, as Elizabeth Bennet had at Pemberley, just to see the splendor of a place I’d heard about, but when I found myself inside the grand house, so grand it had apartments in it, the rich lady, the owner of the house, came upon me as I was admiring a room whose purpose I think was just to showcase the highness of the ceilings and the s…