But there's no doubt men like sweet, sentimental women, and I suppose they are restful in a house....

Shall we have coffee in the drawing-room?
It's cosier." In the drawing-room they settled down before the fire very contentedly silent.

Pamela idly reached out for a book and read a little here and there as she sipped her coffee, while her hostess looked into the fire.
The room seemed to dream in the spring sunshine.

Generations of Hopes had lived in it, and each mistress had set her mark on the room.
Beautiful old cabinets stood against the white walls, while beaded ottomans worked in the early days of Victoria jostled slender Chippendale chairs and tables.

A large comfortable Chesterfield and down-cushioned arm-chairs gave the comfort moderns ask for.