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On Sunday the sewing-room of the female prisoners is used as a Chapel, the men attending services in the morning, the women in the afternoon; once a month there is service for the Roman Catholic prisoners.
Lloyd and Phil turned over the music in the cabinet until they found a pile of duets which they both knew, and began to try them, first to the accompaniment of the piano, then the harp. Mary, sitting in the hall where she could see both the chess-players and the singers, waited in a state of bliss to be summoned to the sewing-room.
It had been used latterly as a sewing-room, and Agnes Darling sat at the other window embroidering a handkerchief for Rose. There had been a long silence the seamstress never talked much; and Eeny was off in a daydream. Presently, a big dog came bounding tumultuously up the avenue, and a tall man in an overcoat followed leisurely. "There!" exclaimed Eeny, "there's Tiger and Tiger's master.
So please spread this broadcast among the friends in England. This Home has been enlarged once since it was built, and yet it is not nearly big enough for our present needs. We have no nursery, and I only wish you could see the tiny room which has to do duty for a sewing-room.
She had no appetite, however, and after dallying at the table for half an hour or so, she went up stairs again and entered the sewing-room. She found Mona busy at work upon the tea-gown a beautiful robe of old-rose cashmere, made up with a lighter shade of heavy armure silk. "Can you finish it in season?" she inquired. "Oh, yes, easily.
Polly ran over the stairs, nervously twirling the little note. "O, dear me, where are you, Ben?" "Here," called Ben, "in Mamsie's sewing-room." "Oh! I beg your pardon," exclaimed Polly, throwing wide the door on the tete-a-tete Ben was having with Charlotte. "Come in, Polly," cried Ben, his blue eyes glowing with welcome. "That's all right; you don't interrupt us.
She and Lloyd had given up their rooms to the new guests, and moved back into the sewing-room together. Now in order not to awaken Lloyd she tiptoed out to the little vine-covered balcony, through the window that opened into it from the sewing-room. She was in her nightgown, for she could not wait to dress, when she was so eager to find out what kind of a day Eugenia was to have for her wedding.
"Your men can have a billiard-room and a smoking-room, while my poor women can't even have a comfortable place for darning the men's stockings and sewing on their shirt-buttons. Oh, men are such selfish creatures!" "Well, now," said Brother Tom, "I'll leave it to Susie if those tenants of hers can afford to have a special sewing-room." "And I'll leave it to Susie if "
Blinder, who was a friendly disposed woman, and had been longer in the house than the other servants, and she asked me if I was quite comfortable and had everything I needed. I said I had no fault to find with my place or with my mistress, but I thought it odd that in so large a house there was no sewing-room for the lady's maid.
Hunter, the village sewing woman, comfortably established here in the sewing-room for weeks, if she liked, making ginghams for Ruth and Ruth's new mother. When those days came Clifford would gradually abandon this unwelcome role of lover, and be her kindly, middle-aged old friend again.
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