The house had long wanted these additions, only there had been no money to buy them with.
Now Mrs.Hooper felt secretly certain that Constance, when she left them, would not want to take the things with her, so that she looked on Connie's purchases of the morning as her own prospective property.
A furniture van appeared early in the afternoon with the things.

Nora hovered about the hall, severely dumb, while they were being carried upstairs.

Annette gave all the directions.
But when later on Connie was sitting at her new writing-table contemplating her transformed room with a childish satisfaction, Nora knocked and came in.
She walked up to Connie, and stood looking down upon her.

She was very red, and her eyes sparkled.
"I want to tell you that I am disappointed in you--dreadfully disappointed in you!" said the girl fiercely.
"What do you mean!" Constance rose in amazement.
"Why didn't you insist on my father's buying these things?
You ought to have insisted.

You pay us a large sum, and you had a right.