"It would have made no difference, —" said Elizabeth, and said no more.
"I will return to the city to-morrow, and send you up immediately whatever you will give order for. It can be here in a very few days."
Elizabeth looked at the maple chairs and the mahogany table, and she could not speak, for her words choked her. Winthrop stooped again to his paper of screws and hinges and began turning them over.
"What are you going to do?" said Elizabeth, coming a step nearer.
"I am going to see if I can put up these blinds?"
"Blinds!" said Elizabeth.
"Yes. — I was fortunate enough to find some that were not very far from the breadth of the windows. They were too long; and I made the man shorten them. I think they will do."
"What did you take all that trouble for?"
"It was no trouble."
"Where did all these things come from?"