"I picked it up to-day," she said; "it was so pretty and just the thing for this room. Cecilia called it a great bargain—she knows all about rugs."
"Then you have been shopping with Mrs. Ingles?"
"Well, she was getting a few things. She said that sixty dollars was little enough for it."
"Sixty dollars! Did you pay for it?"
"I had it charged."
"Charged?"
"Yes; wasn't that right? Why, George, even poor mamma, away out there in Hinsdale, has her account at Field's."
[XVIII]
The drawings for the embellishment of the house on Walton Place were undertaken by Atwater, and their scope broadened under the artist's hands. George, at his wife's request, took the elevator one noon and went up to the roof to see them.