'If you like to let me stay home tomorrow and charge the time the same as if I had gone to work at the house, I could go to my ordinary work on Wednesday and let you have the drawings on Thursday morning.' 'Oh, all right,' said Rushton as he returned to the perusal of his letters.
That night, long after his wife and Frankie were asleep, Owen worked in the sitting-room, searching through old numbers of the Decorators' Journal and through the illustrations in other books of designs for examples of Moorish work, and making rough sketches in pencil.
He did not attempt to finish anything yet: it was necessary to think first; but he roughed out the general plan, and when at last he did go to bed he could not sleep for a long time.

He almost fancied he was in the drawing-room at the 'Cave'.

First of all it would be necessary to take down the ugly plaster centre flower with its crevices all filled up with old whitewash.

The cornice was all right; it was fortunately a very simple one, with a deep cove and without many enrichments.

Then, when the walls and the ceiling had been properly prepared, the ornamentation would be proceeded with.