"And compared it with the others.

It was when you told me to put the eightpenny scuttle in Miss Jenkins' room.

She complained at once." "Then you exceeded your duties, Miss Bunting.

You should have referred Miss Jenkins to me." Miss Bunting made no reply.

She had acted precisely in the way suggested, but Miss Jenkins, a young art-student of independent opinions, had flatly declined to be "referred" to Mrs.Lawrence.
"It's not the least use, Bunty dear," she had said.