The house-maid alone came here on Saturdays, to wipe from the mirrors and the furniture a week's quiet dust: and Mrs. Reed herself, at far intervals, visited it to review the contents of a certain secret drawer in the wardrobe, where were stored divers parchments, her jewel-casket, and a miniature of her deceased husband; and in those last words lies the secret of the red-room--the spell which kept it so lonely in spite of its grandeur.
Reed visitaba también la habitación para revisar, en un departamento secreto del armario, las joyas que guardaba en unión de un retrato de su difunto marido... La clave de que el cuarto rojo fuera imponente residía en esas últimas palabras.