CHAPTER XIV.
THE NEW HOUSEMAID.
"What do you think of the new housemaid, Charlotte ?" "As she has only been here twenty-four hours," Miss Penfold replied, "I don't think I can say anything about it, Eleanor.

All servants behave decently for the first week or two, then their faults begin to come out.

However, she seems quiet in her way of going about, and that is something.

My room was carefully dusted this morning.

These are the only two points on which I can at present say anything." "I met her in the passage this morning," Eleanor Penfold said, "and it seemed to me that her face reminded me of some one.