"...and had a flavor about it 'just like Rose', Katy declared. No one else would have hung the pictures or looped back the curtains in exactly that way, or have hit upon the happy device of filling the grate with a great bunch of marigolds, pale brown, golden and orange, to simulate the fire which would have been quite too warm on so mild an evening.
.......She had also begged from an old aunt at Beverly Farms a couple of droll little armchairs in white painted wood, with covers of antique needlework. One had 'Chit' embroidered on the middle of its cushion, the other, 'Chat'. These stood suggestively at the corners of the hearth."
~from What Katy Did Next,
by Susan Coolidge
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