That took too long.

At last I was allowed to go where I liked and take what I wanted.

I sent a pair of handsome slippers at Christmas to the man who had been my special servitor.

He wrote me how he admired them and wished he could wear them, but alas! his feet had both been worn to a stub long ago from such continuous running and climbing to satisfy my seldom-satisfied needs.

He added that several of the errand boys had become permanently crippled from over-exertion.