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“Not as bad as all that,” the doctor said easily. “Actually, the ground floor is laid out in what I might almost call concentric circles of rooms; at the center is the little parlor where we sat last night; around it, roughly, are a series of rooms—the billiard room, for instance, and a dismal little den entirely furnished in rose-colored satin—“

“Where Eleanor and I will go each morning with our needlework.”

“—and surrounding these—I call them the inside rooms because they are the ones with no direct way to the outside; they have no windows, you remember- surrounding these are the ring of outside rooms, the drawing room, the library, the conservatory, the—“

“No,” Theodora said, shaking her head. “I am still lost back in the rose-colored satin.”

- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House