The existence of these rooms has always been a family secret, though it was one which I valued so little that it was only the chance of my seldom using the house which had prevented me from pointing them out to some friend.
«L'existence de ces chambres a toujours été un secret de famille. Sans doute, c'était un secret auquel je n'attachais pas grande importance et ce fut la seule raison qui m'eût empêché de les montrer à quelque ami.