He could have booted him! As the grounds took shape before her delighted eyes, Betty found leisure to institute a thorough reformation indoors.

A number of house servants were rescued from the quarters and she began to instruct them in their new duties.
Tom was sick at heart.

The little fool would cripple the place.

It gave him acute nausea to see the gangs at work about the lawns; it made him sicker to pass through the house.

There were five or six women in the kitchen now--he was damned if he could see what they found to do--there was a butler and a page.