Then she glanced at the girl over her glasses.

"I'm just waiting here because I must go into the kitchen soon, and look at my cake.

That Betty of mine must needs go and see her sick mother to-day, and I have to look after things.

But I cannot be idle.

I declare, there is something malicious in the way in which the relatives of servants fall ill!" She stopped here long enough to count the spoons, and then began her game again.