Jane Admires 



visitors : moths, spiders, bats, all the horrible things 

 that are said to fasten in a woman's hair. 



There is no door through to the dressing-room, 

 only the narrow Gothic aperture. That is because 

 the only fireplace is in the dressing-room, and 

 because a room so tiny has no business to have 

 a door. There is a curtain which we will draw 

 when you have had a glimpse of the green ivory 

 dressing-table outfit, brushes, powder-box, etc. etc. 

 The name on them is pricked in with gold, in the 

 old way. They began their lives as blue and turned 

 green by degrees, like all the old green knives. If 

 they had begun green, they would have turned 

 brown and yellow ; the lovely green is faded blue ! 



Well, then, the chest of drawers in the dressing- 

 room is Queen Anne, those in the bedroom Shera- 

 ton, also the wardrobe. Queen Anne, of course, 

 must object to the Italian element, but it broadens 

 her mind, and helps her to shake off the Churchill 

 influence. She took it all so seriously at first — as 

 seriously as the people for whom modern tourist 

 Italy was invented — that the room was in danger 

 of becoming a little sombre. However, that little 

 gay cushion on the chair there, and the chintz- 

 covered box — in which are kept oddments of every 

 description — dismissed Culture for ever. 



There remains one gap to be repaired. One of 

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