If she desired more variety, which was seldom, she went to the kitchen.

After we moved she grew averse to leaving the house, except to go to church.

She never quitted the dining-room after our supper till bedtime, because father rarely came from Milford, where he went on bank days, and indeed almost every other day, till late, and she liked to be by him while he ate his supper and smoked a cigar.

All except Veronica frequented this room; but she was not missed or inquired for.

She liked the parlor, because the piano was there.