I slept alone in your bed,
the end of a fire going out in the grate,
I came awake-
certain, had we ever met,
you wouldn't have wanted me,
or needed me,
would barely have noticed me at all.
Guilt and rage
hardened me then,
and later I felt your dislike
chilling the air
as I drifted away.
Your wallpaper green and crimson and gold.
How close can I get
to the sound of your voice
which Emma Elizabeth Hibbert described-
The vividness of the colours attests to the power of the speaker’s feelings; his assumptions about his subject.  The wallpaper the author would choose would reflect the vibrant power of his personality. 
 This is another clue that the author might be Dickens; a writer who described physical surroundings of his characters with such brilliance.
The Biographer