When Rosa told her how they thought of furnishing, she said, "Oh no, you must not do that; you will pay double for everything.

That is the mistake Johnnie and I made; and after that a friend of mine took me to the auction-rooms, and I saw everything sold--oh, such bargains; half, and less than half, their value.

She has furnished her house almost entirely from sales, and she has the loveliest things in the world--such ducks of tables, and jardinieres, and things; and beautiful rare china--her house swarms with it--for an old song.

A sale is the place.

And then so amusing." "Yes, but," said Christopher, "I should not like my wife to encounter a public room." "Not alone, of course; but with me.