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And again she thought: "He doesn't know anything about the letter. He thinks Ninian got tired of me." Deep in her heart there abode her certainty that this was not so. By some etiquette of consent, Mrs. Bett cleared the table and Lulu and Cornish went into the parlour. There lay the letter on the drop-leaf side-table, among the shells.
The drop-leaf mahogany table in the beautiful old dining room looked very inviting when Josie informed the master: "Dinner bane served up, sir!" A low bowl of violets and early hyacinths that the new maid had found blooming in the back yard were reflected in the polished surface of the mahogany. The table must perforce be bare as all the tablecloths in the house were soiled.
Ought she not to have old-fashioned silver and egg-shell china and drop-leaf mahogany to fit the practice? Instead of daisy and wild-rose patterns in "solid," and art curtains, and mission chairs, and a white-enamelled refrigerator, and a gas range.
Attractive and inexpensive painted furniture can be made to be used in simple surroundings by buying slat-backed chairs with splint seats and a drop-leaf pine table and having them painted the desired ground color and then striped and decorated with a motif from the chintz to be used in the room.
A table Of oak, mahogany, or walnut, either drop-leaf, gate- leg, or console. A mirror Gilt, or to match the wood in the table, Early American or English. A straight chair or two With or without rush seats, enameled black, with stencil design, or to match the wood of the tables. A low-boy Of mahogany or walnut, with drawers for gloves, string, etc.
The three were sitting in the parlor, a small, square room, through whose western windows the sinking sun streamed boldly. Mrs. Phelps had never seen a room like this before. There was no note of quaintness here; no high-boy, no heavy old mahogany drop-leaf table, no braided rugs or small-paned windows. There was not even comfort.
Her heart would throb like a girl's when she saw, on the little drop-leaf table in the hallway, the big square envelope addressed in the doctor's fine hand; sometimes again like a girl she carried it down to the beach before breaking the seal, thrilled with a thousand hopes, unready to put them to the test.
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