“We might make one, or several.”
“Well, then?”
“Why then it must be placed in front of one of the apartments—the drawing-room, for example, on the ground floor, in the middle of the garden front, or if on the first floor, in front of the best bedroom.”
“And would not that have a good effect?”
“Perhaps it might: but the apartment next to it, opening upon this loggia, would be dark and gloomy, as the windows would be shaded by its ceiling.”
“Ah! yes, that is true; but in fact we have loggias at the end of the drawing-room, the billiard-room, and the dining-room.”
“Yes; only they are closed, instead of being open towards the outside, and these apartments gain in area through them. These loggias are therefore recesses—what they formerly called ‘bays.’ We have thus all the advantages of a loggia without the inconveniences which in our climate it would entail.”
“Why did you not say so to M. Durosay?”
“He could see it well enough; there was no need to mention it to him.”
“He would have liked a portico, too.”