i confined myself then to begging her to give up her chamber , which is the handsomest in the hotel , and to be satisfied with a pretty little room on the third floor ; but to this madame porthys replied that as she every moment expected her master , who was one of the greatest ladies in the court , i might easily comprehend that the chamber she did me the honor to occupy in my house was itself very mean for the visit of such a personage .