"Yes, that's what he said." The girl looked out of the window in adding, "I presume with nice bindings it will look very well."
"Oh, nothing furnishes a room like books."
"No. There will have to be a good many of them."
"That depends upon the size of your room and the number of your shelves."
"Oh, of course! I presume," said Irene, thoughtfully, "we shall have to have Gibbon."
"If you want to read him," said Corey, with a laugh of sympathy for an imaginable joke.
"We had a great deal about him at school. I believe we had one of his books. Mine's lost, but Pen will remember."
The young man looked at her, and then said, seriously, "You'll want Greene, of course, and Motley, and Parkman."
"Yes. What kind of writers are they?"
"They're historians too."