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"The gardener? Oh, yes--I spoke to her about that the other night The place is beginning to look run down--so many flowers to attend to Well--that's very kind of Miss Dale"

"Yes, Miss Neily" Lizzie hesitated, obviously with sohty news on her e "I ht have told Miss Dale she could have been lookin' for a cook as well--and a housemaid--" she muttered at last, "but they hadn't spoken to ht in bed "A cook--and a housemaid? But we have a cook and a housemaid, Lizzie! You don't mean to tellBoth of 'eood heav-- Lizzie, why on earth didn't you tell ly, all the blarney of Kerry in her voice "Now, Miss Neily, as if I'd wake you first thing in thewith bad news like that! And thinks I, well, maybe 'tis all for the best after all--for when Miss Neily hears they're leavin'--and her so particular--o back to the city for just a little and leave this house to its haunts and its bats and--"

"Go back to the city? I shall do nothing of the sort I rented this house to live in and live in it I will, with servants or without them You should have told me at once, Lizzie I'm really very et up iive those two a piece oftoo?"

"Not that I know of--the heathern Japanese!" said Lizzie sorrowfully "And yet he'd be better riddance than cook or housemaid"

"Now, Lizzie, how many times have I told you that you must conquer your prejudices? Billy is an excellent butler--he'd been with Mr Flehest reco, if he is With you to help hiet other servants" Miss Cornelia had risen now and Lizzie was helping her with the intricacies of her toilet "But it's too annoying," she went on, in the pauses of Lizzie's deft ive any reason? It isn't as if they were new to the country like you They'd been with Mr Fle as Billy"