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"I took the upper floor, so as to get good air and the view of the city
and the bay, which is very fine," Peter said. "And I have a staircase to
the roof, so that in good weather I can go up there."
"I wondered what the great firm was doing up ten stories," said Watts.
"Ogden and Rivington have been very good in yielding to my
idiosyncracies. This is my mealing closet."
It was a room nine feet square, panelled, ceiled and floored in
mahogany, and the table and six chairs were made of the same material.
"So this is what the papers call the 'Stirling political incubator?' It
doesn't look like a place for hatching dark plots," said Watts.
"Sometimes I have a little dinner here. Never more than six, however,
for it's too small."
"I say, Dot, doesn't this have a jolly cosy feeling? Couldn't one sit
here blowy nights, with the candles lit, eating nuts and telling
stories? It makes me think of the expression, 'snug as a bug.'"
"Miss Leroy told me, Peter, what a reputation your dinners had, and how
every one was anxious to be invited just once," said Leonore.


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