3687. The news of the death of Aunt Marfa was brought to
Harriett just after dinner on Saturday evening. It was a late dinner, with a
few guests from a neighboring estate. When the dinner was over the men retired
to their smoking room and the women sat down to a game of cards in the Lavender
Room. The Lavender room was actually papered in pale yellow with vertical pink
stripes alternating with miniature rosebuds.
3688. The room had been lavender at one time, or so everyone
thought, because the lavender color could be seen here and there where the
yellow paper had chipped. The furniture was also upholstered in yellow, with
white painted wood frames. Gold was not used on the furniture because it seemed
to disappear and be rendered to no effect against the yellow of the walls.
3689. You might picture the room to yourself as being about
15 feet in length and width, but with a ceiling 18 feet high. This oddly
vertical looking room presented a problem to the interior designers who
decorated it, but was solved with the use of a huge chandelier hung far down
from the ceiling that nicely lowered the visual effect of the ceiling's height.
3690. The windows were of the floor to ceiling variety, and
were so huge and awkward looking they had been covered with crimson maroon
drapes of a thick velvet material through which not the slightest light could
pass.
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