Anything you cannot take can be sent after you.
Here is a check for the following month's wages." Mrs.Halsey was nearly a head taller than her employer, a stout showy woman, handsome enough, red-lipped, and with a moist and crafty eye.
This was so sudden a misadventure that she forgot her usual caution.
"You've no right to turn me off in a minute like this!" she burst forth.
"I'll leave it to Madam Weatherstone!" "If you will look at the terms on which I engaged you, Mrs.Halsey, you will find that a month's warning, or a month's wages, was specified.
Here are the wages--as to the warning, that has been given for some months past!" "By whom, Ma'am ?" "By yourself, Mrs.Halsey--I think you understand me.

Oscar will take your things as soon as they are ready." Mrs.Halsey met her steady eye a moment--saw more than she cared to face--and left the room.
She took care, however, to carry some letters to Madam Weatherstone, and meekly announced her discharge; also, by some coincidence, she met Mr.
Matthew in the hall upstairs, and weepingly confided her grievance to him, meeting immediate consolation, both sentimental and practical.
When hurried servants were sent to find their young mistress they reported that she must have gone out, and in truth she had; out on her own roof, where she sat quite still, though shivering a little now and then from the new excitement, until dinner time.
This meal, in the mind of Madam Weatherstone, was the crowning factor of daily life; and, on state occasions, of social life.

In her cosmogony the central sun was a round mahogany table; all other details of housekeeping revolved about it in varying orbits.

To serve an endless series of dignified delicious meals, notably dinners, was, in her eyes, the chief end of woman; the most high purpose of the home.
Therefore, though angry and astounded, she appeared promptly when the meal was announced; and when her daughter-in-law, serene and royally attired, took her place as usual, no emotion was allowed to appear before the purple footman who attended.
"I understood you were out, Viva," she said politely.
"I was," replied Viva, with equal decorum.

"It is charming outside at this time in the evening--don't you think so ?" Young Matthew was gloomy and irritable throughout the length and breadth of the meal; and when they were left with their coffee in the drawing room, he broke out, "What's this I hear about Mrs.Halsey being fired without notice ?" "That is what I wish to know, Viva," said the grandmother.