"I cannot, and shall not, stand him any longer! We must, and shall, get rid of him!" Her voice rang with its accustomed tone of all-conquering determination.

"Matilda, we are going to do it! I say we are going to do it!" Matilda gazed admiringly at her magnificently aroused mistress.

"Of course, you'll do it, ma'am," she said with conviction.
"I cannot endure him another minute!" Mrs.De Peyster raged on.

"At once, he goes out of this house! Or we do!" "Of course, ma'am," repeated Matilda in her adoring voice.

And then after a moment, she added quaveringly: "But please, ma'am,--how are we going to do it ?" The outraged and annihilatory Mrs.De Peyster gazed at Matilda, utterer of practical common-places.