[Tracy Park by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookTracy Park CHAPTER IV 9/13
So, go it, Dolly, while you are young,' and in the exuberance of his joy Frank kissed his wife on both cheeks, and then hurried back to his office, where he spent most of his time trying to be a gentleman. That day they dined in the kitchen with a leaf of the table turned up as they had done in Langley, but the next day they had dinner in the dining-room, and were waited upon by the new girl as well as it was possible for her to do with her mistress' interference. 'Never mind; Mr.Tracy's in a hurry.
Give him his pie at once,' she said, as Susan was about to clear the table preparatory to the dessert, but she repented the speech when she saw the look of surprise which the girl gave her and which expressed more than words could have done. 'Better let her run herself,' Frank said, when Susan had left the room, 'and if she wants to take every darned thing off the table and tip it over to boot, let her do it.
If she has lived three years with Mrs. Atherton, she knows what is what better than we do.' 'But it takes so long, and I have much to see to in this great house,' Dolly objected, and her husband replied: 'Get another girl, then; three of them if you like.
What matter how many girls we have so long as Arthur pays for them, and he is bound to do that.
He said so in his letter.
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