Amid all the details of providing for and entertaining many people, my duty was to think of everything, and never to seem as if I had anything on my mind.

I should have been fairly trained _for a kitchen-maid_, Selina, if I had done what I was told when it was bawled at me, and had talked and seemed more overwhelmed with work than the Prime Minister.

Well, most of our servants had known me from babyhood, and it was not a light matter to have the needful authority over them without hurting the feelings of such old and faithful friends.

But, on the whole, they respected my efforts, and were proud of my self-possession.

I had more trouble with the younger ones, who were too young to help me, and whom I was too young to overawe.