And dose to this were book-shelves, and a table on which were magazines and papers and a woman's workbasket, and in the workbasket--sound asleep--a cat!
There was no cozy arrangement for daily feminine employment; no workbasket, or litter of spools and tapes; nothing to indicate what might be her daily way of going on.
Her workbasket was standing by her chair, piled high with mending that she had neglected for her pleasuring.
Her workbasket was beside her, the bright knitting-needles in the unfinished sock.
A lady, carrying a small workbasket in her hand, bade the reporter good-evening as she passed out.
And she held her hand between the lamp and the workbasket on the table.
What had a workbasket to do in the room of a man?
She took up her workbasket and waited for him to speak.
