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They sat down on the sofa, and looked at each other in silence. Their faces were almost alike. The boy murmured: "You see, Hélène, there is no one here." And a hand pointed to the uncovered bed, and to the empty table and empty clothes-racks the careful denudation of unoccupied rooms. Then the same hand began to tremble like a leaf. I heard the beating of my heart.
Brass spoons of different sizes are used for stirring the contents of the different cooking utensils, also a wooden spoon. In the sleeping-rooms of the well-to-do there are wooden beds with mattresses and sheets and pillows, clothes being hung upon clothes-racks, which in one house visited were of the same pattern as the English "towel horse."
The bride's clothes are set out on a clothes-rack; in families of high rank, seven robes are hung up on the rack; five of these are taken away and replaced by others, and again three are taken away and replaced by others; and there are either two or three clothes-racks: the towel-rack is set up in a place of more honour than the clothes-racks.
From the number of hours they spend upon the street, I often am tempted to say, what the poor, tired woman, who stood for miles in the street-car, said to her fellow-passengers, "Have none of yez homes?" Poor, empty-pated little creatures! Poor lovely little clothes-racks, who occasionally organize a concert for newsboys whose lives are busier and more useful than their own!
If there are only two rooms available, a third room is built for the occasion. The presents, which have been mentioned above, are set out on two trays. Besides these, the bridegroom's clothes are hung up upon clothes-racks. The mattress and bedclothes are placed in a closet.
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