Sometimes an invention of the devil. Is your stuff Madison Avenue or Grand Rapids? Reply.
Wire from Miss Smith:
Madison Avenue and Grand Rapids hadn't been invented when Hynds House was furnished.
Wire from The Author:
Maybe not, but mightn't be same furniture. Have been stung before. Can't be genuine. Too much of it.
Wire from Miss Smith:
Please yourself.
Wire from The Author:
Coming to investigate. Won't sleep in anything but pineapple bed; won't sit in anything but carved chair; can't pray without prie-dieu. If spurious will publicly gibbet you and probably burn your house down. Hold southwest room my arrival.
Alicia laughed, and cuddled those yellow slips.