1.   Graham remembered a solitary and lonely childhood in palatial houses in Mount Kisco, N.Y., and in Washington.

2.   Kijima lived in a two-story house palatial by Japanese standards in the exclusive Setagaya neighborhood.

3.   The palatial house is a maze of rooms, one of which contains a beautifully preserved series of murals.

4.   We gawked at the palatial houses and manicured hedges.