"I will be back directly." He went to the top of the kitchen stairs, and called to the housemaid.
"Is the cook down there ?" "Yes, sir." "What is she doing ?" "Crying her heart out." Benjulia turned away again with the air of a disappointed man.

A violent moral shock sometimes has a serious effect on the brain--especially when it is the brain of an excitable woman.

Always a physiologist, even in those rare moments when he was amusing himself, it had just struck Benjulia that the cook--after her outbreak of fury--might be a case worth studying.

But, she had got relief in crying; her brain was safe; she had ceased to interest him.

He returned to the dining-room..