It's specially arranged for concentration of mind.

If it weren't for the necessity of having something to sit upon and something to write at and a few necessary reference books and a lock-up place, we should have had nothing in the room at all.

When Adrian wants to relax and live his ordinary human life, he only has to walk out of the door and there he is in the midst of beautiful things." "Oh, I quite see, dear," said Barbara, with a familiar little flash in her blue eyes.

"But do you think a leather seat for that hard wooden chair--what the French call a _rond-de-cuir_--would very greatly impair the poor fellow's imagination ?" "It might be economical, too," said I, "in the way of saving shininess!--" Adrian laughed.

"It does look a bit hard, darling," said he.
"We'll get a leather seat to-day," replied Doria.
But she did not smile.