She is going to stop with us for a few days." Taken completely aback at the news of this new addition, Eudoxia looked at first defiance.

She seemed on the point of handing in her resignation there and then.

But evidently she thought better of it, for, taking a cue from Mrs.Rossmore, she asked in the sarcastic manner of her mistress: "Four is it now, M'm?
I suppose the Constitootion of the United States allows a family to be as big as one likes to make it.

It's hard on us girls, but if it's the law, it's all right, M'm.

The more the merrier!" With which broadside, she hung the bags all over herself and staggered off to the house.
Stott explained that the larger pieces and the trunks would come later by express.