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....she heard sounds of her husband returning for luncheon. These began with the slamming of the dining-room door and then came a great bellowing, at which his wife put her head under the bedclothes to drown her laughter. Steps sounded in the lobby and the enraged man appeared in the doorway..
August Strindberg, The Red Room, trans. Elizabeth Sprigge, J.M. Dent & Son, London, 1967, (Everyman Edition) p.33.
TIME: 1879
PLACE: Stockholm
Now came a roll of drums from the barrack yard below and he saw the guardsmen lining up with their copper vessels to get their dinner. .....the dinner bell rang on Skeppsholm, something was sizzling in his neighbour's, the police constable's kitchen.....he heard the clatter of knives and plates in the next room and the children saying grace....
August Strindberg, The Red Room, trans. Elizabeth Sprigge, J.M. Dent & Son, London, 1967, (Everyman Edition) p.57.
TIME: 1879
PLACE: Stockholm
....that they sought a meeting-point and a place for conversation ..... As music was not a hindrance to conversation, but rather the reverse, this was tolerated and gradually became as much a feature of the Stockholmer's evening diet as punch and tobacco.
August Strindberg, The Red Room, trans. Elizabeth Sprigge, J.M. Dent & Son, London, 1967, (Everyman Edition), p.65.
TIME: 1879
PLACE: Bern's Salon, Stockholm.
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