The dining-room at Harlowe House had been furnished after the fashion of a pretty little tea shop at which Grace had often lunched in New York.

The walls were done in white with a faint blue and silver stripe.

The ceiling was white with a decoration of deep blue corn flowers.

The floor was covered with a thread and thrum rug in blue and white, and instead of two long tables there were several small ones which seated from four to six persons.

In the middle of each table was a vase of flowers, and the effect of the whole room was dainty and homelike.