CHAPTER XXI.
HOW TO PAINT CHINA AND HOW TO FORM STYLE.
Mrs.Dove had a great many lodgers--she let rooms on each of her floors, and she called her lodgers by the name of the floor they occupied--first floor, second floor, third floor came and went to 10, Eden Street.

The girls were known as "the attics," and Jasmine felt very indignant at the name.
"It's almost as bad as being a tare," she said to Primrose.

"Dear, dear! I never thought I should turn into an attic! What an unpleasant place London is! I begin to think Poppy is quite right in what she says of it." "I begin to suspect," said Primrose, "that London, like all places, has its shady side and its bright side.

We are in the shady side at present, dear Jasmine--that is all." Mrs.Dove had not only lodgers who seemed to worry her from morning to night--for, unlike her name, she was always fretting or scolding somebody--but she also had a husband, and this husband made his presence felt by every lodger in the house.

He was often away for a whole week at a time, and then comparative peace reigned in No.