The Happy Garden 



(Don't take him on your lap, or you will not 

 be able to escape for hours ! All I He has gone 

 upstairs to lie on a purple quilt which he finds 

 essentially the right background for his colour 

 scheme. You shall see.) 



Upstairs, under the Japanese prints, with a 

 chance of peeping at yourself in the Wellington 

 mirror at the top. 



Now for the study — straight ahead 1 It is the 

 latest room of all, and it finishes the house. Alas ! 

 I have a plan for building out one more room, 

 which we don't want, and the man clamours for 

 a study away from the house, somewhere in the 

 wood. 



" So like a man ! " says Jane. 



I think it is only male discontent, and entirely 

 because he has a friend who has a study that was 

 once a cowshed. ... If it ever became serious 

 he might be turned into the washhouse. 



" He couldn't want anything better than this," 

 says Jane. 



Men always want something better — so do 

 women ! 



It faces south and west. Two walls are all 

 taken up with long, low, rounded windows with 

 leaded glass and window-seats with green cushions. 



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