1919. The House of Dreams Come True by the romance novelist, Margaret Pedler, begins: The great spaces of the hall seemed to slope away into impenetrable gloom; velvet darkness deepening imperceptibly into sable density of paneled wall; huge, smoke-blackened beams, stretching wide arms across the roof, showing only as a dim latticework of ebony, fretting the shadowy twilight overhead. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.