I could see nothing but a muscular-looking man in a blue blouse with a can of hot water in one hand and a pair of boots in the other.

He appeared to be equally bewildered with myself at the sight of the empty bed.

From a cupboard in the corner came a wail of distress: "Oh, do send that horrid man away.

What's he doing in my room ?" I explained to her afterwards that the chambermaid abroad is always an active and willing young man.

The foreign girl fills in her time bricklaying and grooming down the horses.