New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-06-07

of his that to make you do as he says. This
is to be boudor, and that a bed room for lady
The best is lust good enough for her You shall
decide what you think the best,-choose your c",n
colors, your own style, everything. Consult whom
you please, and don't be afraid of the expense.
Make the result exquisite. You do i'll know
you are precisely the one do it If you will allow
me to say it, you have not yet begun to discover
your abilities, Miss CrotChett. You may purchase
any books YOU can find that will help you. As
matter of fact you will find number this par
ticular subject there in the other l insist
upon only one thing, and that IS that you shall be
tiles but patience is not among them.
Il don't want to do the work, | said. am
not equal to it. It's beyond me
curious kind of smile You haven't yet, my child,
the faintest notion of how completely your destiny
il is
Weren't they strange words
HARDLY know what said. He went down to the
door with me and put in the machine, and was
whirled back to nv dear old hall bed room. Three
times on the way home the Irish chauffeur turned
and looked at me- and each time he made funny
rabbitike motions with his mouth as II he was going
to say something. But he didn't, except Good
night miss in a sort of kind way when l thanked
him You NAV think it odd speak of a chauffeur
kindness; but you see like kindness wherever L
get it and when servants are kind to me It makes
me happy I'm only the Grand Detour girl Del
phine and nv heart is foolish thing I'm scared
as a hare half the time, for all the front put up
Well had brought home with half a dozen
Of the books on decoration that Mr.. Rathburn had
urged upon me: and l looked them over, of course,
although | still felt could never do the work prop
erlv But do YOU know, | became perfectly tascl-
mated | didn't much want to do something
along the lines of the work laid down there as did
to get together certain colors and shapes that would
please me 4 queer thing happened to me, Delph1ne
As read and read and looked at the illustrations IN
those books | realized | never had been in a room
that suited me- and | said to myself that / would
make lust the kind of room | wanted,-the sort
that the dreamiest. best part OF me wanted knew
some woman was coming into those rooms though
of course | hadn't idea what sort OF woman L
hoped she would be as sweet as the little English
bride who had come on and simply loved her
house and had me out to dinner and cemented
a great friendship with me, and SAID / had don
wonders to help keep the inconsistencies away As
went on with those books, my dear, my ideas which
had been drifting this way and that, began to get
into some sort of form and pattern, and telt that
wanted to trv my hand at the work
So | wrote Nh Rathburn about it. and asked HIM
how much | was to be permitted to spend, and
what he wished to pay me for my work m
ashamed to tell YOU the price he named, 1t was 50
large But said to myself that | should spend only
what was needed and that he would be glad to
have the rest back. and | meant to keep IN pay
71ent only what il seemed to me | had earned L
decided to leave that till the work was done
OUCH beautiful rooms as | made. Delphlne! They
~ are not fussv and pretty. | find don care flucn