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Updated: June 17, 2025
She seated herself after a moment's hesitation. He moved his chair a little closer to hers. The pink-shaded lamp seemed to shut them off from the rest of the room. A waiter poured wine into their glasses. "I ordered champagne to-night," he remarked. "You looked so tired when you came in. Drink a glass at once." She obeyed him, smiling faintly.
'Do you think, he went on, 'that a man should ask a woman to marry him only when she has reached maturity? Marion, moving well into the glow of the pink-shaded lamp, said it depended on the stage of maturity. Nowadays, when women so often look younger than they really are, it is difficult to tell. He seemed relieved. 'That's exactly what I feel about it.
"It does," agreed Mrs. Perry, "but we're getting the very last rays now. Ring for lights, Kit." "No, sister, let's just have the firelight. It's more becoming, anyway." So Mrs. Perry merely turned on one pink-shaded light near the tea table and let her guests enjoy the twilight and firelight.
After dinner they had their coffee on the terrace, and watched the sun setting behind the fir woods, and when the last yellow gleam had faded away from the sky, at Dinah's suggestion Elizabeth went into the drawing-room, where two pink-shaded lamps were already lighted, and seated herself at the piano.
Henry Rooter had likewise ruined himself in a coincidental manner: "Well Patty my eyes are pretty but suppose I would like to trade with yours because you have beautiful eyes also, sure as my name is Henry Rooter." Florence stood close to the pink-shaded electric drop-light over her small white dressing-table, reading again and again these pathetically honest little confidences.
Through the unshuttered windows I could see the light of a fire and the glow of a pink-shaded lamp in the room that used to be the drawing-room. The opposite room was also fire-lit and lamp-lit. The hall door stood wide open, and Sheila, my lover's spaniel, stood wagging her tail in the doorway.
Asparagus fern was lavishly used, and pink-shaded candles in silver candlesticks adorned the table. Small silver dishes of almonds, olives, and confectionery were dotted about, and finger-bowls with plates were set out on the side-table. Certainly it was all very beautiful, and Patty surveyed it with feelings of absolute satisfaction.
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