It is all white tiling and shining nickel-plate, as easy to keep clean as a china dish, and just a delight to work in.

I never thought so before, but now it seems to me that it is just as nice to know how to serve a delicious meal as easily as Joyce does as it is to put a picture on canvas.

I can see now what a good thing it was for both of us that we had to serve such a long apprenticeship in work and housekeeping, even if it did seem hard at the time.
"'It gives a girl a sort of Midas touch,' Phil said last night; 'makes her able to gild even a garret and to turn any old place into a home,' He was so charmed with everything about the flat that he said he wanted to move into one right away, and make biscuits himself on a glass-topped table, and do stunts with the fireless cooker like Joyce.

He has had a surfeit of cafes and hotels and boarding-houses.
"While we were at breakfast the postman came, and there were letters and packages for everybody.

Lloyd sent a present to each of us.