`` Do you know , '' said Sara , when they stood in the middle of the room and surveyed the result , `` I expected to have a good laugh over this , but it does n't look funny after all . The things all seem to suit each other , some way , and they look good , do n't they ? I mean they look real , clear through . I believe that table and those drawers are solid mahogany . And look at the carving on those bedposts . Cleaning them has made such a difference . I do hope Aunt Josephina wo n't mind their being so old . '' Aunt Josephina did n't . She was very philosophical about it when Sara explained that Cousin Caroline had the spare room , and the blue north room was all they had left . `` Oh , it will be all right , '' she said , plainly determined to make the best of things . `` Those old things are thought a lot of now , anyhow . I ca n't say I fancy them much myself -- I like something a little brighter . But the rich folks have gone cracked over them . I know a woman in Boston that 's got her whole house furnished with old truck , and as soon as she hears of any old furniture anywhere she 's not contented till she 's got it . She says it 's her hobby , and she spends a heap on it . She 'd be in raptures if she saw this old room of yours , Sary . '' `` Do you mean , '' said Sara slowly , `` that there are people who would buy old things like these ? '' `` Yes , and pay more for them than would buy a real nice set with a marble-topped burey . You may well say there 's lots of fools in the world , Sary . '' Sara was not saying or thinking any such thing .
It was a new idea XXXXX her that any value was attached to old furniture , for Sara lived very much out of the world of fads and collectors .
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