I never had no real peace all the time I was married, what with wondering how you were being looked after, and whether you was ill or not.

I always took in _The Morning Post_, though Angus did grumble at the expense, all the time I was in Paris, on purpose to see where you was; and every day I looked at the Births, Deaths, and Marriages first, to see if anything had happened to you." She stopped; and Tinker was silent a while, thinking; then he said, "Do you think you could act as maid to Elsie ?" "Why, of course I could, Master Tinker!" "She wants someone to brush her hair most," said Tinker thoughtfully.
"I don't want a maid.

And I don't want anyone to brush my hair but you," said Elsie firmly.

"No one could do it so well." "Oh, you'll soon get used to Selina's doing it," said Tinker cheerfully.
"And you'll find it so much more--so much more important having a maid of your own.

You'll feel so grown-up, don't you know?
I tell you what, we'll go upstairs, and Selina can have a try at it, while I talk to my father." Elsie shook her head doubtfully; but she came.