I shall go to bed early.' The police had as yet failed to get upon the track of the felonious housekeeper, known as Mrs.Maskell.

Mrs.Carnaby's other servants still kept their places, protesting innocence, and doubtless afraid to leave lest they should incur suspicion.

Domestic management was now In the hands of the cook.

Sibyl always declared that she could not eat a dinner she had had the trouble of ordering, and she seemed unaffectedly to shrink from persons of the menial class, as though with physical repulsion.

Perforce she submitted to having her hair done by her maid, but she found the necessity disagreeable.
The dinner was simple, but well cooked.