She said that the paint on the stairs would not do. It was dark brown paint, and very ugly, but Walter thought we should leave it.
She said:
‘It is all wrong, that brown paint, you must have it taken off.’
Mrs. Sebright said we must have the drains relaid. I had thought we might leave the drains.
Maud came up from Lessingham to see the house. She said we should have the paint inside green.
She said:
‘It saves work; white paint gives far more trouble.’
But I did not want green paint inside.
In the bedroom, she said:
‘You can have a nice fumed oak suite, in here. There are excellent fumed oak suites at the Army and Navy Stores. I have furnished the bedrooms in our teachers’ hostel with their suites. Well made, and in very good taste.’