I went back at once to the question of the servants wanted for the furnished house.
"Where is the list, dear ?" Rachel produced it.
"Cook, kitchen-maid, housemaid, and footman," I read.

"My dear Rachel, these servants are only wanted for a term--the term during which your guardian has taken the house.

We shall have great difficulty in finding persons of character and capacity to accept a temporary engagement of that sort, if we try in London.

Has the house in Brighton been found yet ?" "Yes.

Godfrey has taken it; and persons in the house wanted him to hire them as servants.