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The
phoning
finished
,
everyone
was
directed
to
rip
down
the
brown
velvet
curtains
at
once
.
Out
they
went
onto
the
rubbish
heap
in
an
orgy
of
wastefulness
Fee
supervised
personally
,
even
putting
the
torch
to
them
herself
.
"
We
do
n't
need
them
,
"
she
said
,
"
and
I
'm
not
going
to
inflict
them
on
the
Gillanbone
poor
.
"
"
Yes
,
Mum
,
"
said
Meggie
,
paralyzed
.
"
We
're
not
going
to
have
any
curtains
,
"
said
Fee
,
not
at
all
disturbed
over
a
flagrant
breach
of
the
decorating
customs
of
the
time
.
"
The
veranda
's
far
too
deep
to
let
the
sun
come
in
directly
,
so
why
do
we
need
curtains
?
I
want
this
room
to
be
seen
.
"
The
materials
arrived
,
so
did
the
painters
and
the
upholsterer
;
Meggie
and
Cat
were
sent
up
ladders
to
wash
and
polish
the
top
windows
while
Mrs.
Smith
and
Minnie
coped
with
the
bottom
ones
and
Fee
strode
around
watching
everything
with
an
eagle
eye
.
By
the
second
week
in
January
it
was
all
done
,
and
somehow
of
course
the
news
leaked
out
on
the
party
lines
.
Mrs.
Cleary
had
made
the
Drogheda
drawing
room
into
a
palace
,
and
would
n't
it
be
only
the
civil
thing
for
Mrs.
Hopeton
to
accompany
Mrs.
King
and
Mrs.
O'Rourke
on
a
welcome-to-the-big-house
visit
?
No
one
argued
that
the
result
of
Fee
's
efforts
was
absolute
beauty
.
The
cream
Aubusson
carpets
with
their
faded
bunches
of
pink
and
red
roses
and
green
leaves
had
been
strewn
rather
haphazardly
around
the
mirror-finished
floor
.
Fresh
cream
paint
covered
the
walls
and
the
ceiling
,
every
molding
and
carving
painstakingly
picked
out
in
gilt
,
but
the
huge
oval-shaped
flat
spaces
in
the
paneling
had
been
papered
with
faded
black
silk
bearing
the
same
bunches
of
roses
as
the
three
carpets
,
like
stilted
Japanese
paintings
in
cream
and
gilt
surrounds
.
The
Waterford
chandelier
had
been
lowered
until
its
bottom
pendant
chimed
a
bare
six
and
a
half
feet
from
the
floor
,
every
prism
of
its
thousands
polished
to
a
flashing
rainbow
,
and
its
great
brass
chain
tethered
to
the
wall
instead
of
being
bunched
up
.
On
spindly
cream-and-gilt
tables
Waterford
lamps
stood
next
to
Waterford
ashtrays
and
Waterford
vases
stuffed
with
cream
and
pink
roses
;
all
the
big
comfortable
chairs
had
been
recovered
in
cream
watered
silk
and
placed
in
small
cozy
groupings
with
large
ottomans
drawn
up
to
each
one
invitingly
;
in
one
sunny
corner
stood
the
exquisite
old
spinet
with
an
enormous
vase
of
cream
and
pink
roses
on
it
.
Above
the
fireplace
hung
the
portrait
of
Fee
's
grandmother
in
her
pale
pink
crinoline
,
and
facing
her
at
the
other
end
of
the
room
was
an
even
larger
portrait
of
a
youngish
,
red-haired
Mary
Carson
,
face
like
the
youngish
Queen
Victoria
,
in
a
stiff
black
gown
fashionably
bustled
.
"
All
right
,
"
said
Fee
,
"
now
we
can
move
up
from
the
creek
.
I
'll
do
the
other
rooms
at
my
leisure
.
Oh
,
is
n't
it
lovely
to
have
money
and
a
decent
home
to
spend
it
on
?
"
About
three
days
before
they
moved
,
so
early
in
the
morning
the
sun
had
not
yet
risen
,
the
roosters
in
the
fowl
yard
were
cock-a-doodling
joyously
.
