XVI style, for, he went on, although that was not, of course, done, still it might be made charming, but in the “Sham-Antique.”

“You wouldn’t have her live, like you, among a lot of broken-down chairs and threadbare carpets!” she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the “light woman.”