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| The Salon: This is the most elegant of ‘drawing rooms’ where the owner would receive his most important guests. What agreements were made in this room? A request for a lady’s hand? At what price? |
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| The Autumn Drawing Room: Elegant but the furniture and walls lack adornment. Did the owners fall on hard times? |
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| The Gallery: What if a gentleman was visiting the home of a lady whom he was considering a candidate for his wife but then noticed that the gallery only exhibited portraits of male ancestors? What would he think? That something so painful had happened in the family that no female portraits were allowed? |
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| The Library: This is where Mistress Kendall researches her stories. But what about past owners? Did one acquire a massive collection of books yet fail to ever read one volume? Why would that be? |
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| The Evening Entertainment Room: If a lady entertained a gentleman, the chaperone occupied the chair near the door. She could see everything except the eye language that passed between the couple. |
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| The School Room: Mistress Kendall wonders how many ladies truly had artistic or musical talent and how many gentlemen really cared if his affiance could paint or play a tune. If a man didn’t care, then what was he really after in the relationship? |
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| The Young Lady’s Bed Chamber: The lady must have written a note. Was it written in haste? The desk and door are open. No adornments dress her bureau. Did she leave? |
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