[Elizabeth’s Campaign by Mrs. Humphrey Ward]@TWC D-Link bookElizabeth’s Campaign CHAPTER II 45/46
Do you think anybody wants as much tea and cakes in war-time ?' She pointed to the table. Forest paused as he was lifting the silver tray, and put it down again.
He looked at the table; then he looked at the lady opposite. 'We servants, Miss, have never been asked what _we_ think.
Mr. Mannering--that's not his way.' 'But I may ask it, mayn't I, Forest ?' Forest's intelligent face flamed. 'Well, if we've really to speak out what we think, Miss--that's Cook and me--why, of course, the feeding here--well, it's a scandal! that's what it is.
The Master will have it.
No change, he says, from what it used to be.
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