This was evidently not one of the forlorn, persecuted, pitiably dependent order of governesses.

Here was a woman who lived on ascertained and honorable terms with her employers--a woman who looked capable of sending any parents in England to the right-about, if they failed to rate her at her proper value.
"Breakfast at ten ?" repeated Miss Garth, when the footman had answered the bell, and had mentioned his master's orders.

"Ha! I thought what would come of that concert last night.

When people who live in the country patronize public amusements, public amusements return the compliment by upsetting the family afterward for days together.

_You're_ upset, Thomas, I can see your eyes are as red as a ferret's, and your cravat looks as if you had slept in it.