I ain't quite dressed." Lois and her mother went in as they were directed, and sat down in two of the parlor chairs.

The room looked very grand to Mrs.Field.
She stared at the red velvet furniture, the tapestry carpet, and the long lace curtains, and thought, with a hardening heart, how, at all events, she was not defrauding this other woman of a fine parlor.

It was to her mind much more splendid than the sitting-room in the other house, with its dim old-fashioned state, and even than the great north parlor, whose furniture and paper had been imported from England at great cost nearly a hundred years ago.
Mrs.Maxwell did not appear for a half-hour.

Now and then they heard a scurry of feet, the rattle of dishes, and the closing of a door.
They sat primly waiting.

They had not removed their wraps.