Then he considered the conveniences, the baths, the electric light, and the heat.
After a two weeks' search, he had decided upon one of two suites; both of these were in the desired neighbourhood but differed widely in other respects.
The first was reasonable enough in the matter of rent, and had even been occupied by an artist for some three or four years previous.

However, the room that Vandover proposed to use as a sitting-room was small and had no double windows, thus making the window-seat an impossibility.
There did not seem to be any suitable place for the Assyrian _bas-reliefs_, and the mantelpiece was of old-fashioned white marble like the mantelpiece in Mrs.Wade's front parlour, a veritable horror.
It revolted Vandover even to think of putting a pipe-rack over it.

These defects were offset by the studio, a large and splendid room with hardwood floors and an enormous north light, the legendary studio, the dream of an artist, precisely such a studio as Vandover had hoped he would occupy in the Quarter.
The other suite was in a great apartment house, a hotel in fact, but very expensive, with electric bulbs and bells, and with a tiled bathroom connecting with the bedroom.

The room which he would be obliged to use as his studio was small, dark, the light coming from the west.

But the sitting-room was perfect.