But when she had finished the cleaning, she surveyed the result with surprise.

The room was scrubbed as bare as a shaven chin.

So she took some coloured almanacs from the bedroom and kitchen, and tacked them on the walls, studying the effect with the gravity of a decorative artist.

The crude blotches of colour pleased her eye, and she considered the result with pride.

"Wonderful 'ow a few pitchers liven a place up," she thought.
She looked doubtfully at the chairs.