"Now," said the countess, "let us arrange the conditions of our i*********e, in order to put an end to all danger of evil-speaking. The pavilion has only four windows looking on my garden. The two lower ones—I do not know the arrangement of the rooms."
"The two lower ones are in the room which my son uses as a studio and I as a salon. We always sit there; but the lower sash, with four panes of ground glass, is stationary, and we open only the upper sashes; but they are often open at this season."
"Then you cannot look into my house, as I was told. But that sash with the ground glass was not stationary yesterday; it was partly open."
"True, madame la comtesse; there was a broken pane which you may have noticed."
"No; my sight is bad, consequently I don't look very closely."
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