"Who is the drawing-room for ?" "For Miss Matty, please, Mrs.Butler, ma'am.

For Miss Matty and Mr.
Gusty Jenkins.

They're a--they're a-lovering in the drawing-room, ma'am." "Then they are engaged! That rumor also reached me.

Come on, Maria.
We'll go and congratulate them." No poor little ignorant maid-of-all-work could keep Mrs.Butler back now.

She swept down the passage, followed by the shrinking, but curious Miss Peters.