big chimneys of the mississippi steamers.a magnificent piano crowded the apartment. in the next room she slept, and in thethird and last she harbored a gasoline stove on which she cooked her meals whendisinclined to descend to the neighboring restaurant. it was there also that she ate, keeping herbelongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use. when edna knocked at mademoiselle reisz'sfront room door and entered, she discovered that person standing beside the window,engaged in mending or patching an old prunella gaiter.