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He was sure that she was not an intentional fraud , and though he departed in a state of annoyance with himself , he came to the conclusion that if any credulity were played upon by Mrs. Horner 's exhibitions , it was her own . Nevertheless , his queer spot having been stimulated to action by the coincidence of the letters , he went to Mrs. Horner 's after his directors ' meeting today . He used the telephone booth in the directors ' room to make the appointment ; and he laughed feebly at himself , and wondered what the group of men in that mahogany apartment would think if they knew what he was doing . Mrs. Horner had changed her address , but he found the new one , and somebody purporting to be a niece of hers talked to him and made an appointment for a `` sitting '' at five o'clock . He was prompt , and the niece , a dull-faced fat girl with a magazine under her arm , admitted him to Mrs. Horner 's apartment , which smelt of camphor ; and showed him into a room with gray painted walls , no rug on the floor and no furniture except a table -LRB- with nothing on it -RRB- and two chairs : one a leather easy-chair and the other a stiff little brute with a wooden seat . There was one window with the shade pulled down to the sill , but the sun was bright outside , and the room had light enough . Mrs. Horner appeared in the doorway , a wan and unenterprising looking woman in brown , with thin hair artificially waved -- but not recently -- and parted in the middle over a bluish forehead .