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Next day his wife and Lola returned, and that same evening as I sat with the latter in the chintz-covered drawing-room for though I had been engaged as chauffeur I was now treated as one of the family I had a delightful chat with her.
With an effort she extricated herself from the depths of the big chintz-covered chair and took a tall straight one near the table on which Hedwig was placing iced tea and sandwiches, and as she reached for the tea with her right hand, she held out her left for the paper Mary Cary was bringing to her.
A colored maid was told to look after Grace and Sylvia, and she led the way up the beautiful spiral staircase to a pleasant chamber overlooking the garden. There were two small white beds, with a little mahogany light-stand between them. On this stand stood a tall brass candlestick. There were two dressing-tables, and two small bureaus, and a number of comfortable chintz-covered chairs.
The walls are, of course, white, the paneled spaces being broken by quaint old Colonial mirrors and appropriate lighting-fixtures. There is a great fireplace at one end of the hall, with a deep, chintz-covered davenport before it. There are also roomy chairs covered with the same delightful chintz, a green and white glazed English chintz that is as serviceable as it is beautiful.
"I am being favoured with a little scene by my wife," he explained. "She is capable of getting up excellent little scenes, but I daresay she does not show you that side of her temper." Betty took a comfortable chintz-covered, easy chair. Her expression was evasively speculative. "Was it a scene I interrupted?" she said. "Then I must not go away and leave you to finish it.
"They're all in the garden, sir; if you'll kindly take a seat, I'll tell them." Old Jolyon sat down in the chintz-covered chair, and looked around him. The whole place seemed to him, as he would have expressed it, pokey; there was a certain he could not tell exactly what air of shabbiness, or rather of making two ends meet, about everything.
Emmeline closed the door noiselessly, and Miss Gibbie, left alone, put down the pearl breast-pin she had been holding and took her seat in the chintz-covered chair, with its gay peacocks and poppies, and put her feet on the footstool in front. In the mirror over the mantel she nodded at herself. "I wonder what makes you such a contrarious person, Gibbie Gault?
In five minutes more he entered with another. Miss Nancy wanted Fitz and me. We followed the old servant up the winding staircase and down the long hall, past the old-fashioned wardrobe and the great chintz-covered lounge, waited until Chad knocked gently, and entered the dear lady's bedroom. She sat near the window by the side of the high post bedstead, rocking gently to and fro.
So she thought, as she gazed before her into space from the chintz-covered lounge on the night of the day Barode Barouche was buried. There was a smell of roses in the room. She had gathered many of them that afternoon. She caught a bud from a bunch on a table, and fastened it in the bosom of her dress.
Leaning back in the chintz-covered rocking chair, he spread his feet out to the heat which came from the oven door, and repeated, "No fear of Pearlie there ain't a girl in the country better able to do for herself. Faith and she's no fool and never was I ain't worrying about Pearlie wherever she goes or whatever she meets I ain't worrying." "You don't worry about anything, John," said Mrs.
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