And while you must, of course, exercise your authority and demand respect, yet at the same time you will find it necessary to defer to her judgment and experience on many occasions." "I know it, Aunt Alice," said Patty very earnestly; "and I do want to do what is right.

I want to be the head of papa's home, and yet there are a great many things that my servants will know more about than I do.

I shall have to be very careful about my proportion; but if you and papa will help me, I think I'll come out all right." "I think you will," said Aunt Alice, but she smiled a little at the assured toss of her niece's head.
The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; though, if the applicants seemed unsatisfactory to Patty, in many cases she was no less so to them.
One tall, rawboned Irishwoman seemed hopefully good-tempered and capable, but when she discovered that Patty was to be her mistress, instead of Mrs.Elliott, as she had supposed, she exclaimed: "Go 'way wid yez! Wud I be workin' for the likes of a child like that?
No, mum, I ain't no nurse; I'm a cook, and I want a mistress as has got past playing wid dolls." "I hope you'll find one," said Patty politely; "and I'm afraid we wouldn't suit each other." Another Irish girl, with a merry rosy face and frizzled blonde hair, was very anxious to go to work for Patty.
"Sure, it will be fun!" she said.

"I'd like to work for such a pretty little lady; and, sure, we'd have the good times.

Could I have all me afternoons out, miss ?" "Not if you lived with me," said Patty, laughing.