What else could I do?
"Why, then, do you have it here ?" "It's a present from Anastasius," she said.

"Every time he comes to see me he brings what he calls an _'offrande'_.

All these things"-- she indicated, with a comprehensive sweep of the arm, the Union Jack cushion, the little men mounting ladders inside bottles, the hen sitting on her nest, and the other trumpery gimcracks--"all these things are presents from Anastasius.

It would hurt him not to see them here when he calls." "You might have a separate cabinet," I suggested.
"A chamber of horrors ?" she laughed.

"No.