The scene is the duplex apartment of the
Cavendish family, in the East Fifties,
New York. The room is spacious and
high-ceilinged--it is really two floors that
one sees. At the rear is a balcony from
which various doors open into hallways
and bedrooms. A curved staircase leads
to this balcony. The main room, down-
stairs, has three doors. One is the outer
door, set at a right angle in a kind of
recess at the back. Almost hidden under
the curve of the stairway is a door that
leads to the rear of the apartment--used
only by the servants. On the left, the
side opposite the outside entrance, is a
double door into the library. It is a door-
way of majestic height, and when these
doors stand open one catches a glimpse of
high and endless bookshelves.

The room has about it nothing of the com-
monplace. At a glance one sees that it is

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