Then came the drawing room, quite the thing, the drawing room, with its windows opening on the lawn.

Only the red upholsteries there were hideous; she would alter all that.

As to the dining room-well, it was a lovely dining room, eh?
What big blowouts you might give in Paris if you had a dining room as large as that! As she was going upstairs to the first floor it occurred to her that she had not seen the kitchen, and she went down again and indulged in ecstatic exclamations.

Zoe ought to admire the beautiful dimensions of the sink and the width of the hearth, where you might have roasted a sheep! When she had gone upstairs again her bedroom especially enchanted her.

It had been hung with delicate rose-colored Louis XVI cretonne by an Orleans upholsterer.