drawingroom

— “[…] The Twelfth Kentucky infantry has had all the chances in the world to follow the path of glory. I’d like a change. Fiddles instead of drums and girls, very pretty girls, Ewing, in drawingrooms. The drawingrooms are important.” […] I give you my word she would like nothing better than to see you dead in one of the drawingrooms you are so particular about. […] It bothers me to see you sitting on the portico, or in the drawingroom, day after day. […] John remembered, now, seeing a small framed daguerreotype of Wickliffe Sash in the drawingroom at Calydon—a dark boy with hair carefully brushed away from a thin intent face.