Kate Talisford sat huddled against the pillows, the white counterpane drawn up to her chin.
He might even ask his hostess for a white counterpane.
He remembered the room where they lived, a dark, closesmelling room that seemed half filled by a bed with a white counterpane.
There was a depression in the white counterpane of the bed where a man's body had been stretched out.
The Empress is propped up on the window side of the overlarge bed, the white counterpane folded back at her waist.
It threw a bright circle of light on the white counterpane drawn up to the lace at the throat of her nightgown.
I smelled something hot and saw smoke rising from the bottom of the white counterpane which covered her.
She seemed to be asleep, looking small and shrunken under a white counterpane.
The hand lying on the white counterpane still clutched the telephone token but neither of them mentioned it.
The outline of her clenched fist was visible under the white counterpane.