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The very shape of your head, and ears, and nails, bespeaks a Princess, disguised as a finished head-pupil, going to take over a class of grubby-fingered little ones pah! next term. And don't we all know that an English Duchess sends you your Christmas and Easter and birthday gifts!
If she was thinking of a little blond child lying in a hospital bed if she was thinking of a man with sleek hair, trying to make a new start if she was thinking of a girl with dark, flashing eyes, and a small, grubby-fingered boy, her expression did not mirror her thought. Only once she spoke, as she was folding her napkin. And then "They're both very young," she murmured, a shade wistfully.
And if a door-plate, why not a curtain-rod? A curtain-rod is a necessity to the incoming tenant; a door-plate is merely a luxury for the grubby-fingered to help them to keep the paint clean. One might be expected to bring one's own door-plate with one, according to the size of one's hand.
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