«I suppose one joins the League of Nations Union, and reads the Isis every week, and drinks coffee every morning at the Cadena cafe, and smokes a
great pipe and plays hockey and goes out to
tea on Boar's Hill and to lectures at Keble, and rides a bicycle with a little
tray full of notebooks and drinks cocoa in the evening and discusses sex seriously.»
The huge ottoman is multifunctional: it's
great for putting your feet up, but also acts as a table surface when a
tray or wood block is used to steady your objects (vital if you want to ensure the beautiful fabric isn't damaged by coffee or
tea spillages).