29/42 Did anyone ever see such a bare place ?" "Anyhow, it's very comfortable," Vincent said, "though I grant that it would be improved by a little furniture." "By a great deal of furniture, you mean. Why, there isn't a chair in the house, nor a carpet, nor a curtain, nor a cupboard, nor a bed; in fact all there is is the rough dresser in the kitchen and that plank table, and your bedstead. Chloe has the kettle and two cooking-pots, and there is the dish and six plates we bought." "You bought, you mean," Vincent interrupted. Then there is the basin and a pail. |