clever captions, which I should have to write
myself. ���STARK SIMPLICITY IS THE KEYNOTE
OF THIS POPULAR AUTHOR���S RETREAT.��� It
would have to be on those lines. We could move
up one of the cane chairs, and drape a sheet
over it, and obscure the foreground with a bowl
of roses, and try to persuade [the cat] to sit on
the piano and gaze at me, with the Empire bedside table in the background. That would do for
the music room.
But what about the drawing room? That would
have to be ���ANTIQUE AND MODERN BLEND
IN HAPPY HARMONY IN AUTHOR���S GEORGIAN MANSION.��� In other words, the Regency
settee would have to be pushed into the foreground, with another of the cane chairs beside
it, camouflaged with a different sheet; and perhaps we should be able to persuade the cat to
sit on it again, if he had not been driven into a
state of advanced hysteria by the flash lights.
Then I could drape myself on the settee, and
gaze, with frenzied interest, at the William and
Mary cupboard, hoping that when the photoHYLAND
