She herself had no fears of it, and the books scattered about her drawing-room (a part of the house in which books were usually supposed to be \"out of place\"), though chiefly works of fiction, had whetted Archer's interest with such new names as those of Paul Bourget, Huysmans, and the Goncourt brothers. Ruminating on these things as he approached her door, he was once more conscious of the curious way in which she reversed his values,
She herself had no fears of it, and the books scattered about her drawing-room (a part of the house in which books were usually supposed to be \"out of place\"), though chiefly works of fiction, had whetted Archer's interest with such new names as those of Paul Bourget, Huysmans, and the Goncourt brothers. Ruminating on these things as he approached her door, he was once more conscious of the curious way in which she reversed his values,
