'How much does a cabinet cost?'

'Jones would make a plain deal one for about five-and-twenty
shillings.'

'I can't unpack mine properly,' said Leonard, disconsolately. 'Ave
is going to make a place for them, but Henry votes them rubbish.'

'They are dreadful rubbish,' said Ethel. 'It goes against my
conscience to guard them from the house-maid, and if my sister Flora
came in here, I should be annihilated.'

'Of course one expects that in women.'

'Oh, Richard would be as much distracted! It is a provision of
Nature that there should be some tidy ones, or what would the world
come to?'

'It would be a great deal less of a bore.'

'Not at all; we should stifle ourselves at last if we had our own
way. Never mind, Leonard, we make them go through quite as much as
they make us.'

'I am sure I hope so.'

'No, no, Leonard,' she said, becoming less playful, 'we must not do
it on purpose. Even unconsciously, we plague the spirits of order
quite enough, and they have the right on their side after all.'