Although this is a room in Hampstead, it could just as easily be in 'Kelmscott',  Miss Porteous' home in The Village. Marghanita Laski, who did indeed live in Hampstead, is superb at creating rooms which reflect her characters' tastes, personalities and aspirations. Miss Porteous furnishes hers in a self-conscious William Morris-style, with chintz, repoussé brass, and wheelback chairs. The painting is View of a Domestic Interior (probably Church Row, Hampstead, c1913-28) by Ellen Dora Nicholson (1866-1946).