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She sympathized with me. At the same time, it was not necessary, she remarked, that we should keep a hole in our sofa-cover and armchair, there would certainly be no harm in sending them to the upholsterer's to be new-covered; she didn't much mind, for her part, moving her plants to the south back room; and the bird would do well enough in the kitchen: I had often complained of him for singing vociferously when I was reading aloud.
If occasionally any other events were spoken of, she had no other chronology to reckon by, than in the recollection of what carpet, what sofa-cover, what set of chairs, were in the frame at that time.
It seemed an innocent question enough, so Fanny answered that she could. "It has just occurred to me that the last piece of embroidery you did is at home that sofa-cover, you know, with the kissing doves on it. It stands just below your portrait which that young artist you remember painted for nothing.
When he went away, and she thought it was all over mamma might recollect how hard it was for her to keep up, and what a force she put upon herself but she would rather have pined to death than have said one word to bring him back, and was quite shocked when Gilbert gave her his note, to beg her to let him see her that evening, before the party returned; she said, with all her might, that he must not come, and when he did, she was begging him all the time to go away, and she was so dreadfully frightened when they actually came, that she had all but gone into hysterics, or fainted away, and that was the way he came to throw the ink at her she was so very much shocked, and so would he be and really she felt the misfortune to the beautiful new sofa-cover as a most serious calamity and aggravation of her offence.
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