Give me men; they are loyal and true." "All of them ?" inquired Christopher, a little satirically.

"Read the papers." "Every soul of them," said Mrs.Staines, passing loftily over the proposed test.

"That is, all the ones I care about; and that is my own, own one." Disagreeable creatures to have about one--these simpletons! Mrs.Staines took Christopher to shops to buy the remaining requisites: and in three days more the house was furnished, two female servants engaged, and the couple took their luggage over to the Bijou.
Rosa was excited and happy at the novelty of possession and authority, and that close sense of house proprietorship which belongs to woman.

By dinner-time she could have told you how many shelves there were in every cupboard, and knew the Bijou by heart in a way that Christopher never knew it.

All this ended, as running about and excitement generally does, with my lady being exhausted, and lax with fatigue.