people in the room—young women in neat black clothes with little squares of lace upon their heads and men in liveries such as he had often admired when he saw them get down and open the limousine doors.
At his right a dark stair curved sharply up. He hesitated. No one, it appeared, had heard him come in; he could hear no one speaking or moving on the floor above. He looked again at the curving stair, and moved toward it, and still keeping his eyes upon the lighted door, he began to go upward step by step.
