Thereafter at other windows he wilfully dismayed his brother by pretending to consider the purchase of objects in no sense desirable to any one, such as boots, parasols, manicure sets, groceries, hardware.

A bell-boy and two chambermaids for this floor; in time, an elevator and a manicure shop!

You'd have thought one wouldn't have noticed a thing at such a time, but you couldn't escape them,his dressing-table simply covered,white round jars with pink tops, bottles of hair-oil with ribbons round the neck, manicure things, heaps of silver things, and boxes with Chinese patterns on them, and one thing, open, with what was mighty like rouge in it.