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And I rather think the change from game birds and pâté de foie gras to simple eggs and bread and butter will do me good . '' And so the matter was arranged . The servants were notified that , owing to Mrs. Van Raffles 's illness , they might take a vacation on full pay for ten days , and Henriette herself prepared society for her departure by fainting twice at the Innit 's clam-bake on Honk Island . No less a person than Mrs. Gaster herself brought her home at four o'clock in the morning and her last words were an exhortation to her '' _ dear _ Mrs. Van Raffles '' to be careful of herself `` for all our sakes . '' Saturday morning Henriette departed . Saturday afternoon the servants followed suit , and I was alone in my glory -- and oh , how I revelled in it ! The beauties of Bolivar Lodge had never so revealed themselves to me as then ; the house as dark as the tomb without , thanks to the closing of the shutters and the drawing to of all the heavy portières before the windows , but a blaze of light within from cellar to roof .