It was a pocket for superfluous possessions, such as exist in most houses which harbor the wreckage of three generations.

Prints of great-uncles, famed for their prowess in the East, hung above Chinese teapots, whose sides were riveted by little gold stitches, and the precious teapots, again, stood upon bookcases containing the complete works of William Cowper and Sir Walter Scott.

The thread of sound, issuing from the telephone, was always colored by the surroundings which received it, so it seemed to Katharine.

Whose voice was now going to combine with them, or to strike a discord?
"Whose voice ?" she asked herself, hearing a man inquire, with great determination, for her number.

The unfamiliar voice now asked for Miss Hilbery.