amid madame jeanne 's agitated protestations of apology , and reiterated hopes that i would not find it necessary to tell monsieur fraser that i had been exposed to an undesirable intimacy with the working members of the establishment , i made my clumsy way up two more flights of stairs , and into a small room draped with hanging garments in various stages of completion , with bolts of cloth stacked here and there in the corners of the chamber .