Supposing as how _we_ gives the notice!" And they did, to Lady Iniscrone's discomfiture, for she had intended to stay on at the Mall and to keep the staff as it stood till she had supplied its place.

However, she showed her dismay only by her bad temper.
"I suppose you've all pretty well feathered your nests," she said acridly, "and can afford to retire." Nor was her bitterness lessened by the fact that Lady Anne had left handsome legacies to each of the servants, annuities to the elder ones, sums of money to the younger.

But the will, dated some years back, made no mention at all of Mary Gray.
"It seems clear to me," said Mr.Buckton, talking the matter over with Lord Iniscrone, her Ladyship being present, "that Lady Anne intended to make some provision for her _protegee_.

In fact, the letter which she had begun writing to me, which was found in her blotter after her death, plainly indicates that.

She was, apparently, on her way to my house when the lamentable accident happened.