We talk in his room with its single bed, bumpily spread with a candlewick counterpane in a cosy shade of plum. |
She twisted the fringe of the counterpane in her slender, white fingers, and she did not look at him. |
She would wash a counterpane if pettitoes, the most dainty of cats, happened but to set one of his snowy paws upon it. |
The white night-dress was by the bedside, the night-cap was buried in the counterpane. |
He lay under the thick counterpane in the large bed, his body sinking into the mattress, the mass of pillows holding his head so he could see out through the windows. |
Mr. cruncher reposed under a patchwork counterpane, like a Harlequin at home. |