So together they decided everything was clean, comfortable, and harmonized.
Then they went to the hillside sloping to the lake.

For the dining-room, the Girl wanted yellow water lilies, so the Harvester brought his old boat and gathered enough to fill the green bowl.

For the living-room, she used wild ragged robins in the blue bowl, and on one end of the mantel set a pitcher of saffron and on the other arrowhead lilies.

For her room, she selected big, blushy mallows that grew all along Singing Water and around the lake.
"Isn't that slightly peculiar ?" questioned the Harvester.
"Take a peep," said the Girl, opening her door.
She had spread the pink coverlet on her couch, and when she set the big pink bowl filled with mallows on the table the effect was exquisite.
"I think perhaps that's a little Frenchy," she said, "and you may have to be educated to it; but salmon pink and buttercup yellow are colours I love in combination." She closed the door and went to find something to eat, and then to the swing, where she liked to rest, look, and listen.

The Harvester suggested reading to her, but she shook her head.
"Wait until winter," she said, "when the days are longer and cold, and the snow buries everything, and then read.