Like Milly's, the room contained a round table, a chest of drawers with decanters on the top, and a high mantelpiece decorated with pendant green fringes, fastened by big-headed brass nails.

Here cheap china dogs, that had had more than their day squatted amid lustres with crystal drops.

Before the fire was a lofty steel guard, which, useful enough in Milly's household, had survived its function in Malka's, where no one was ever likely to tumble into the grate.

In a corner of the room a little staircase began to go upstairs.
There was oilcloth on the floor.

In Zachariah Square anybody could go into anybody else's house and feel at home.