keeping room

Sally was in the keeping-room mending, but she called Mistress Brace down from her room.

Johnny rises like an agitated blond robin who has just spied the very two worms he was keeping room for to top off breakfast.

"There ought to be room enough in the dining-room and keeping-room for two extra people," she said decidedly.

At this moment the other entered the keeping room, and the squatter heard the sound of the footsteps behind him.

They were sitting in the little, low keeping-room of Whitwell's house, and her father had his hat on provisionally.