George walked by the Mansion hurriedly, and came home to his mother's
house for the last time.
Emptiness was there, too, and the closing of the door resounded
through bare rooms; for downstairs there was no furniture in the house
except a kitchen table in the dining room, which Fanny had kept "for
dinner," she said, though as she was to cook and serve that meal
herself George had his doubts about her name for it. Upstairs, she
had retained her own furniture, and George had been living in his
mother's room, having sent everything from his own to the auction.
Isabel's room was still as it had been, but the furniture would be
moved with Fanny's to new quarters in the morning. Fanny had made
plans for her nephew as well as herself; she had found a three-room
"kitchenette apartment" in an apartment house where several old friends
of hers had established themselves--elderly widows of citizens once
"prominent" and other retired gentry. People used their own
"kitchenettes" for breakfast and lunch, but there was a table-d'hote
arrangement for dinner on the ground floor; and after dinner bridge
was played all evening, an attraction powerful with Fanny.
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