Will the Honourable Phoenix walk--it is only a few steps--or would it like to be--would it like some sort of conveyance ?' 'My Robert will bear me to the board-room, if that be the unlovely name of my temple's inmost court,' replied the bird.
So they all followed the gentleman.

There was a big table in the board-room, but it had been pushed right up under the long windows at one side, and chairs were arranged in rows across the room--like those you have at schools when there is a magic lantern on 'Our Eastern Empire', or on 'The Way We Do in the Navy'.

The doors were of carved wood, very beautiful, with a carved Phoenix above.

Anthea noticed that the chairs in the front rows were of the kind that her mother so loved to ask the price of in old furniture shops, and never could buy, because the price was always nearly twenty pounds each.

On the mantelpiece were some heavy bronze candlesticks and a clock, and on the top of the clock was another image of the Phoenix.
'Remove that effigy,' said the Phoenix to the gentlemen who were there, and it was hastily taken down.