He had come across an iridescent glass jar, and was edging around for an opportunity to ask Kling the price without letting Felix overhear him--it being an occasion, he knew, in which Mr.
O'Day would feel offended if business were mentioned.

"Might do to put in my window, if it didn't cost too much," he had begun, and as suddenly stopped as he caught Felix's eyes fastened upon him.
There were others, however, whose delight could not be repressed.

Tim Kelsey, after the proper greetings were over, had wandered off down the room, stopping to examine each article in its place on the walls.
Finally some pieces of old Delft caught his eye.

He made a memorandum of two in a little book he took from his inside pocket, and later on, when a break in the surrounding conversation made it possible, remarked to Felix: "They seem to get everything in the new Delft but the old delicious glaze.

On a wall it doesn't matter, but you don't feel like putting real old Delft on a wall.