Fine photographs also, of Italian and Dutch pictures, suggested travel, and struck the cultivated cosmopolitan note.
Mrs.Verrier looked round it with a smile.

It was all as unpretending as the maid who ushered her upstairs.

Daphne would have no men-servants in her employ.

What did two ladies want with them, in a democratic country?
But Mrs.Verrier happened to know that Daphne's maid-servants were just as costly in their degree as the drawing-room carpet.

Chosen for her in London with great care, attracted to Washington by enormous wages, these numerous damsels played their part in the general "simplicity" effect; but on the whole Mrs.Verrier believed that Daphne's household was rather more expensive than that of other rich people who employed men.
She walked through the room, looking absently at the various photographs and engravings, till her attention was excited by an easel and a picture upon it in the back drawing-room.