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I found that upstairs it was very sparse and meagre although clean and perfectly all right. I lived there very happily for several weeks - two or three weeks.

After that Mary Rumsey, who was in Washington, took a house owned by two women who are always called the Howrey girls. They're very well-known middle-aged women around Washington. They had a small house over in what I now know was Georgetown. It wasn't a whole Georgetown house. It was the wing of another house - the wing that had been built, apparently, by somebody who owned this big, rather handsome house, for an art gallery and ballroom. It had been cut off long before we got there and a wall was built up. This wing was kind of octagonal shaped because it was a ballroom and art gallery. The second floor was the art gallery and the windows were little oval windows way up near the ceiling. the couldn't see cut of them. That was the second floor. the first floor, which had been a small ballroom, now had a drawing room. It was an octagonal room that was very attractive. Behind had been a dining room and kitchen. This art gallery was a bed4room and then there were two other bedrooms up there. It was a little house, but it was all right. It was furnished.

Mary took it. She telephoned to me that she'd gotten an option on it, but she wouldn't take it unless I'd come to