The Inheritors An Extravagant Story

It was a palatial apartment furnished in white and gold – Louis Quinze, or something of the sort – with very new decorations after Watteau covering the walls. The process of disfiguration, however, had already begun. A roll desk of the least possible Louis Quinze order stood in one of the tall windows; the carpet was marked by muddy footprints,–also by Ford Maddox Ford.