"As he spoke he opened a door and [?] the way into a room which appeared to be very [?] furnished, but again the only light was afforded by a single lamp half-turned down. The chamber was certainly large, and the way in which my feet [?] into the carpet as I stepped across it told me of its richness. I caught [?] of velvet chairs, a high white marble mantelpiece, and what seemed to be a suit of Japanese armour at one side of it. There was a chair just under the [?], and the elderly man motioned that I should sit in it. The younger had left us, but he suddenly [?] through another door, leading with him a gentleman [?] in some sort of loose dressing-gown who moved slowly [?] us.