Another is the lower part of an 18th Century tallboy with open base turned into a fashionable writing table. |
Maggie, I think, is curled up in the third drawer down of the tallboy. |
But next morning, when they were dressing, what does the stranger do but carefully hang his breeches on the knobs of the tallboy! |
To prove the point I had a good poke around in my tallboy and found what I think is called a fisherman's hat. |
The tallboy chest was standing alone in its dignity at the top of the broad staircase. |
There was no fireplace and no coal-scuttle, so I took off my right boot and put it in the bottom drawer of the tallboy instead. |