6/40 "But if you would rather not venture out, I'm afraid I must go and write some letters." "Why, you were writing letters all the morning! My fingers would drop off if I was to go on at it like that. Do you like being a companion? At home they did talk about it for me. But I said: 'No, thank you! My own mistress, if you please!'" The speaker sat down by the fire, raised her skirt of purple cloth, and stretched a pair of shapely feet to the warmth. Her look was good-humored and lazy. |