Now let's compare our sitting-room with the Bakers'. The Bakers are friends of ours.b They live next door to us. Our room is a little large than theirs and it has more furniture in it. As you see, there's no wireless set in Mr. Backer's room. There isn't a bookcase either. Mine is in my sitting-room, but his is in his study.

My wife keeps her music in the music-stool, but Mrs. Baker keeps hers in a separate cabinet near the piano. You can also see that theirs is a grand piano, whereas ours is an upright. Both my wife and Mrs. Baker are very fond of music and both play the piano very well. But my wife doesn't play as well as Mrs. Baker. Mrs. Baker not only plays much better than my wife does, but she's the best pianist in the district. I don't play the piano, but I play the violin.

There's no settee in the Bakers' sitting room, and there are no small chairs. However, they have three easy chairs whereas we have only two. In their room they have an electric fire, but we,  like most English people, have a coal-fire. Sometimes we burn logs of wood instead of coal. Theb= Bakers have two vases on their mantelpiece, as well as a clock, and over the mantelpiece they've got a beatiful picture, painted by a famouse artist.