“This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.”

“By moonlight—the moon shines in all night when there is a moon—I wouldn’t know it was the same paper.”

“I’m really getting quite fond of the big room, all but that horrid [wall]paper.”

“The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”