And the new carpet we put on the floor looks as if it had been used for ten years.

Moreover, every thing is in a most filthy condition.

It is shocking." Mrs.Darlington fairly groaned at this intelligence.
"But where is it all to lead, Edith ?" she asked, arousing herself from a kind of stupor into which her mind had fallen.

"We cannot go on as we are now going." "We must reduce our expenses, if possible." "But how are we to reduce them?
We cannot send away the cook." "No.

Of course not." "Nor our chambermaid." "No.