I find I don't suit you.

My time will be up day after to-morrow." "Very well," was Mrs.Smith's firm reply, as she turned away, and left the kitchen.
Here was trouble in good earnest.

Often and often had Mrs.Smith said, during the past two or three years--"What should I do without Rachel ?" And now she had given notice that she was going to leave her, and under circumstances which made pride forbid a request to stay.

Determined to act out her part of the business with firmness and decision, she dressed herself and went out, hot and oppressive as it was, and took her way to an intelligence office, where she paid the required fee, and directed a cook and chamber maid to be sent to her.

On the next morning, about ten o'clock, an Irish girl came and offered herself as a cook, and was, after sundry questions and answers, engaged.