Even the long-ago people on the walls object to it.

But I must do it again or it won't be practising;" and this time Terry ran the five-finger exercise up and down two or three times without stopping before she let her hands drop again from the keys.
Suddenly a bright idea struck her.
"I wonder what o'clock it is!" she said to herself.

"I must have been at least half an hour in this room." She got down from the high stool and walked slowly across the long room, feeling that she was getting rid of a little time by restraining her usual rapid movements.

Arriving at the door she stood with her back to it for a few moments, gazing all around.
"Could it ever have been a real everyday place to live in, like Granny's sitting-room upstairs, or the day nursery?
Granny says it was a lovely, comfortable room when she was going about, and everybody was in it every day.

And certainly there are a lot of nice things in it, if they were only shaken about.