the dowager had shown her about the main parts of the house when ellie first came to live here a year ago and she seemed to remember the ducal suite as being opulent , to say the least , with its huge four-poster bed and deep-blue brocade curtains , georgian furniture and luxurious blue-and-gold aubusson carpets ; her own bedchamber was nice enough , but only a quarter of that size , the bed barely big enough for the two of them to lie down upon together .