It was Edith's.

It had been her mother's.

Edith, when she married, had wanted something from her old home.

Well, now it was back in the family.
The rest of Edith's furniture, he learned from Deborah that night, had been stored in the top of the house.
"Most of it," she told him, "Edith will probably want to use in fitting up the children's rooms." With a twinge of foreboding, Roger felt the approaching change in his home.
"When do you plan to be married ?" he asked.
"About the end of August.

We couldn't very well till then, without hurting poor Edith a little, you see.