I insist upon good plumbing.

After that, you may have what you want." "Oh, it has brand new bathrooms, Mrs.Mallon told me so, and she's lived there until a year ago.

And if you had only seen the new apartments we looked at, mother, nothing on the East Side that would have held us under twenty-five hundred a year, and even at that the bedrooms were no bigger than closets, and you'd have to have electric light all day in the bathroom.

We searched everywhere, didn't we, Miss Polly ?" "West Twenty-third Street is mighty far out of the way, honey," observed Miss Polly cautiously.
"Oh, but I'd have Carlie, and she's my best friend," persisted Fanny, with caressing obstinacy.
"Well, we'll see, precious," said Gabriella, while she assured herself that if Fanny cost her every penny she had, at least the child was worth what she spent on her.

To a superficial observer, Fanny would probably have appeared merely an attractive girl, of Jane's willowy type, with something of Jane's trite prettiness of feature; but to Gabriella, who suffered from a maternal obliquity of vision, she seemed both brilliant and beautiful.