We came into Ethel's drawing room last Thursday & found a row standing against the window - the D[uche]ss of Sermoneta, M.Baring, & Joyce Wethered. [...] She has white rough cast walls; & no furniture that has cost more than a pound or two - much is old schoolroom furniture endeared to her by her intense egoistic imagination. "It was there I sat, when Mary played the piano...And I said Mary could you play G, sharp instead of G.natural..."