If ever a laundress refuses to let you make a personal inspection be sure there is something wrong.

Just think how vital it is, this washing question.

We send our clothes, our personal garments, to a strange house to be mixed with--" And so on at great length, Mrs.Theodore listening patiently and approvingly.

With equal solicitude did they discuss the food upon their table.
"Theo, I shall have to change our baker." "Ah, indeed! Why ?" "I hardly like to tell you, but perhaps I had better.

I have only just found out that a sewer-trap quite close to his shop gives out a most offensive _affluvia_, especially in this hot weather.