During the day Mrs.Heathcote was backward and forward in the kitchen.

Then was something wrong she knew, but could not quite discern the evil.

Sing Sing, the cook, was more than ordinarily alert; but Sing Sing, the cook, was not much trusted.

Mrs.
Growler was "as good as the Bank," as far as that went, having lived with old Mr.Daly when he was prosperous; but she was apt to be downhearted, and on the present occasion was more than usually low in spirits.

Whenever Mrs.Heathcote spoke, she wept.