It was made into a bed-sitting-room with the aid of a cot which Emily herself bought and disguised decently as a couch during the daytime, by means of a red and blue Como blanket.

The one window of the room looked out upon a black little back-yard and a sooty wall on which thin cats crept stealthily or sat and mournfully gazed at fate.
The Como rug played a large part in the decoration of the apartment.

One of them, with a piece of tape run through a hem, hung over the door in the character of a _portiere_; another covered a corner which was Miss Fox-Seton's sole wardrobe.

As she began to get work, the cheerful, aspiring creature bought herself a Kensington carpet-square, as red as Kensington art would permit it to be.

She covered her chairs with Turkey-red cotton, frilling them round the seats.