" Kittie Scogin Bevins entered then through a rain of bead portières.

" Miss Hassiebrock strode through a pair of chromatic portières, with them swinging after her, and into an unlit kitchen, gray with dusk.

Two liveried attendants were within, one turned the door knob and the other presented his tray for the cards, while in the distance a third, wearing the dress of a butler or majordomo, stood by closed portières.

Doors and windows were hung with thick, dark-red portières, and the walls were almost as white as DeValera's face.

A toothless French portière of thirty years let us in.