You've set the furniture TO WORK! It was simply lying still--with no return to anybody on the investment." The young girl opened her gray eyes at this, and then smiled.

The intruder seemed to be characteristic of California.

As for Rushbrook, he regretted that he did not know her better, he would at once have asked her to rearrange all the rooms, and have managed in some way liberally to reward her for it.

A girl like that had no nonsense about her.
"Yes," she said, "I wonder Mr.Rushbrook don't look at it in that way.
It is a shame that all these pretty things--and you know they are really good and valuable--shouldn't show what they are.

But I suppose everybody here accepts the fact that this man simply buys them because they are valuable, and nobody interferes, and is content to humor him, laugh at him, and feel superior.