Instead of beautiful old Persian carpets, there must have been rushes on all the floors.

And as for the furniture of those days--it was probably all made of plain, hard, unpolished wood." "Well, at any rate,"-- the girl spoke with a touch of impatience--"Milly hated this place.

She told me once she had never known a day's real happiness till her marriage.

That's what made it seem so infinitely sad that it lasted such a short time." "I suppose," said the other slowly, "that they were married altogether about seven months ?" "I fancy rather longer than that.

She was quite well, or so she thought, when she married.