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She went and bought new carpets, rugs and furniture. She furnished it completely. I've never bought so much as a tea cup for myself. It was always the tea cups that Mrs. Roosevelt had bought for us, or that had been given to us as wedding presents. I never had anything.

“Then in the summers we went to Hyde Park. Of course, that was Mrs. Roosevelt's house. Franklin had lived there and it was his home, all right. He had a study downstairs. He had a playroom upstairs and a bedroom. That was all right. Mrs. Roosevelt was lovely. As we had children, she let us expand over the house, but it was her house, after all, her carpets, her furniture, her rugs, her taste, her way of keeping house, her way of having meals served, her guests. She was really lovely because she was so willing to have Franklin have all his friends come and all that.”

Then Sara Roosevelt bought that lovely house on 65th Street. It was two houses just alike. After the family got so big and so rambunetious she bought that house and cut through an entrance on each floor, so it was practically one house, though one half was the young Roosevelt's. Even that was all furnished by old Mrs. Roosevelt. “She had a lot of furniture and she was so kind as to make it available to us,” said Eleanor. “She arranged it. That little drawing room was Mrs. Roosevelt's place. It wasn't mine.