After breakfast he went up-stairs to bid Ida, who had a way of rising late, good-bye, and he whispered to her, "Annie was out all last night." "Oh, well," replied Ida, sleepily, with a little impatience, "it does not happen very often.

What are we going to do about it ?" "Hannah is kicking," said Harry, "and--" "I can't help it if she is," said Ida.

"Annie does her work well, and it is so difficult to get a maid nowadays; and I cannot set up as a moral censor, I really cannot, Harry." "I hate the example, that is all," said Harry.

"There Hannah said, right before Maria, that Annie had been out." "It won't hurt Maria any," Ida replied, with a slight frown.

"Maria wouldn't know what she meant.