The Hidden Room

Arwy Official

Dorian had the portrait carried to an old schoolroom at the top of his house, a place associated with childhood disciplines and forgotten fears. He locked it there behind a heavy door and kept the key himself. To the servants it was an eccentricity; to Basil, who asked to see the painting again, it became a wound. Dorian refused with sharpness. Basil could not understand why a gift made in love should be hidden like …