The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 2

On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his friends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying them a visit in their box after the easy Italian fashion; and when he had obtained his admittance it was one of the secondary theatres looked about the large, bare, ill-lighted house