When I was here last they were new, and hadn't a word against it.

Now they say it's invidious! Lady Dunstane will be left without an under-servant at Copsley soon.

I was asked about your boxes, ma'am, and the moment I said they were at Dover, that instant all three peeped.

They let out a mouse to me.

They do love to talk!' Her mistress could have added, 'And you too, my good Danvers!' trustworthy though she knew the creature to be in the main.
'Now go, and be sure you have bedclothes enough before you drop asleep,' she said; and Danvers directed her steps to gossip with Bartlett.
Diana wrapped herself in a dressing-gown Lady Dunstane had sent her, and sat by the fire, thinking of the powder of tattle stored in servants' halls to explode beneath her: and but for her choice of roads she might have been among strangers.