You generally have a fire in your fireplace, and not every woman is a Saint Euphrosyne, able to walk barefoot over glowing coals.

Here is a little bottle of liquid with which you can quench the flames at pleasure.

It is a chemical mixture expressly prepared for this purpose.

And in this other bottle is another liquid for rekindling the fire,--no secret of chemistry, this time, but only naphtha.

Let us try it at once, for your room is cold and I have nothing on but this dressing-gown." The flames were soon crackling merrily again in the fireplace.