When I make an agreement, I'm up to the mark, and expect the same from everybody else.

Will you let my wife see the rooms, madam ?" "Certainly," replied Mrs.Darlington, and moved towards the door.

Mrs.
Scragg followed, and so did all the juvenile Scraggs--the latter springing up the stairs with the agility of apes and the noise of a dozen rude schoolboys just freed from the terror of rod and ferule.
The rooms suited Mrs.Scragg very well--at least such was her report to her husband--and, after some further rudeness on the part of Mr.
Scragg, and an effort to beat Mrs.Darlington down to twelve dollars a week, were taken, and forthwith occupied..