Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

To Saxon, with her innate love of beauty and charm in all
personal things, the interior of the bungalow was a revelation.
Never before had she been inside a middle class home, and what
she saw not only far exceeded anything she had imagined, but was
vastly different from her imaginings. Mrs. Mortimer noted her
sparkling glances which took in everything, and went out of her
way to show Saxon around, doing it under the guise of gleeful
boastings, stating the costs of the different materials,
explaining how she had done things with her own hands, such as
staining the doors, weathering the bookcases, and putting
together the big Mission Morris chair. Billy stepped gingerly
behind, and though it never entered his mind to ape to the manner
born, he succeeded in escaping conspicuous awkwardness, even at
the table where he and Saxon had the unique experience of being
waited on in a private house by a servant.