●   ●   ●    and a huge carpet with a rose pattern which caused her to complain that she couldn’t wait for her secretary to come to her “across all those roses. ” 23 Surveying the scene in which most of her life for the next three years would be lived, she exclaimed with the wry vigor of the Elizabethan she sometimes was: “O splendid misery!” 24 With equal vigor, however, she proceeded during the next month or two to have the situation rectified.