"The poor woman is greatly distressed.

Is there not some mistake ?" "It's a damn shame," said Matthew.
The younger lady glanced from one to the other, and wondered to see how little she minded it.

"The door was there all the time!" she thought to herself, as she looked her stepson in the eye and said, "Hardly drawing-room language, Matthew.

Your grandmother is present!" He stared at her in dumb amazement, so she went on, "No, there is no mistake at all.

I discharged Mrs.Halsey about an hour before dinner.
The terms of the engagement were a month's warning or a month's wages.