All this time she is opening a very pretty marqueterie writing-desk, on spiral legs, which Longcluse has been listlessly admiring, little thinking what it contains.

Marqueterie and Intarsia are the same thing, though from habit the French title is generally used when speaking of work on a smaller scale.

Mahogany and satinwood were the woods most frequently employed, and they were occasionally inlaid with marqueterie or edged with boxwood.