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I mean to take a little apartment, a furnished apartment at first to see how you like it two rooms and kitchenette, like a play-house." Hosey Brewster looked down at his own big bulk. Then around the great furnace room. "Oh, but listen " "No, I want you to listen first. Mother's worn out, I tell you. It isn't as if she were the old-fashioned kind; she isn't.
"I should like him to have enough left in the old stocking to pay the first year's rent when the wedding bells ring out." She bit meditatively on her chewing-gum. "Not," she said, "that it matters. I'd be just as happy in two rooms and a kitchenette, so long as Fillmore was there. You've no notion how dippy I am about him." Her freckled face glowed. "He grows on me like a darned drug.
The kitchenette apartment is a new departure for those who can afford more room, for it is well known that the poor in the slums have long since lived in one or two rooms serving all purposes. The huge modern apartment house, the huge modern tenement house, are part first of the urban movement and second of that movement away from housekeeping which has been sketched in the Introduction.
They heard her singing happily in the kitchenette, as she turned the faucet at the sink, and then forgot all about her, in the absorbing interest of the work confronting them. With so many conveniences at hand the washing of the dainty china was a pleasure to Mary, after her long vacation from such work.
Cassidy came back with the garments he had been looking for an overcoat, coat and vest and he carried them into the kitchenette, whither presently Vaux followed him. Cassidy had just unlocked the handcuffs from the powerful wrists of a dark, stocky, sullen man who stood in his shirt-sleeves near a small deal table. "Lauffer?" inquired Vaux, dryly.
Lohr came out of the "kitchenette," after the door closed, he said thoughtfully, "Just skin and bones." "You mean Mr. Adams is?" Mrs. Lohr inquired. "Who'd you think I meant?" he returned. "One o' these partridges in the wall-paper?" "Did he look so badly?" "Looked kind of distracted to me," her husband replied. "These little thin fellers can stand a heap sometimes, though.
Her story, her ambitions appealed to Constance, who had been somewhat of an artist herself and recognized even in talking to the girl that she was not without some ability. Then, too, she found that Kitty actually lived, as she had said, in a cozy little kitchenette apartment with two friends, a man and his wife, both of whom happened to be out when they arrived.
A motor boat cabin fitted up with such a "kitchenette" was indeed a novelty. "You see," explained Cora, "we have two ways of getting power. We can take it from the storage battery, or from the little dynamo attached to the motor." "Lovely!" exclaimed Lottie, to whom a "current" meant little, but who wanted to seem interested.
"Yeh," Ray said, absently. When he spoke like that Cora knew that the invisible rim was revolving in his mind. In another moment he would be off to the little cabinet in the bathroom where he kept his tools and instruments. She widened the opening. "I noticed as I passed to-day that those new one-room kitchenette apartments on Sheridan will be ready for occupancy October first."
He retired quite quietly to his cosy kitchenette apartment in Harlem and wrote that charming and winsome essay in sentiment "Mollie's Holiday" which in due course he followed with his celebrated treatise on reincarnation "A Drop of Blood" and "To Horse, to Horse" a stirring romance of the Civil War.
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