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She would be careful in the future . `` That point settled , '' she thought , curling down deeper into her bed and preparing for a nap , `` I 'll anticipate his coming and think about him with all the youthful exuberance I please . '' Betty had invited Senator Burleigh to dinner on Saturday , that he might feel free to call elsewhere on Sunday . At four o'clock , when Mrs. Madison had retired for her nap , she commanded Jack Emory to take Harriet for a long walk and a long ride on the cable cars , and to stop for Sally Carter . No one else was likely to call , and she retired to her boudoir , a three-cornered room in an angle between the parlor and library , to await Senator North . The boudoir was a room that any man might look forward to after a hard day on Capitol Hill . Its easychairs were very soft and deep , its rugs were rosy and delicate , and the walls and windows and doors were hung with one of those old French silk stuffs with a design of royal conventionality and uniformly old rose in colour .