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The dress fit very well, and needed only minor alterations to the long, puffy sleeves and the tight bodice. The fabric was smooth and light, but very warm which was a boon in such cool weather. The hallways were not always warm as I learned when Mrs. Greer led me outside the heated room with its friendly, crackling fire, and into the colder passage.
My room was on the second floor and in the east wing. The wood floors were carpeted but for the outer foot on either side, and the walls were covered in off-white wallpaper and was dappled with elegant flowers. On either side of the hall were doorways that blocked the view of the outside world and created a long tunnel down the entirety of the castle but for the entrance hall. That hall interrupted the rooms on the left until they reap
