But Alice Vavasor's drawing-room was not pretty.
Her father had had the care of furnishing the house, and he had intrusted the duty to a tradesman who had chosen green paper, a green carpet, green curtains, and green damask chairs.

There was a green damask sofa, and two green arm-chairs opposite to each other at the two sides of the fireplace.

The room was altogether green, and was not enticing.

In shape it was nearly square, the very small back room on the same floor not having been, as is usual, added to it.

This had been fitted up as a "study" for Mr Vavasor, and was very rarely used for any purpose.
Most of us know when we enter a drawing-room whether it is a pretty room or no; but how few of us know how to make a drawing-room pretty! There has come up in London in these latter days a form of room so monstrously ugly that I will venture to say that no other people on earth but Londoners would put up with it.