We girls gave up our "spare dress wardrobe" for a museum.

We subdivided the shelves, and proposed to make a perfect collection of the flora and entomology of the neighbourhood.

Eleanor and I really did continue to add specimens whilst the boys were at school; but they came home at Christmas devoted, body and soul, to the drama.

We were soon converted to the new fad.

The wardrobe became a side-scene in our theatre, and Eleanor and Clement laboured day and night with papers of powdered paint, and kettles of hot size, in converting canvas into scenery.