The drawing-rooms had been abandoned to dance; the image gallery had been specialized in chamber music. Chess-players and card-players discovered remote and spaces being peaceful prepared for them. Those who maintained absolutely nothing but speaking had been accommodated to excellence in a sphere of the very own. And enthusiasts (in earnest or perhaps not in earnest) found, in a conservatory that is dimly-lighted numerous recesses, that ideal of discreet your retirement which combines solitude and culture under one roof.