It will not, I should think, be difficult to get a few maids; perhaps some that you know already.
And please bear in mind, that those whom you get, and who are suitable and will stay, are henceforth to have the same wages as those who are remaining.

Of course, Mrs.Grant, you well enough understand that though I do not group you in any way with the servants, the rule of double salary applies to you too." As she spoke she extended her long, fine-shaped hand, which the other took and then, raising it to her lips, kissed it impressively with the freedom of an elder woman to a younger.

I could not but admire the generosity of her treatment of her servants.

In my mind I endorsed Mrs.Grant's sotto voce remark as she left the room: "No wonder the house is like a King's house, when the mistress is a Princess!" "A Princess!" That was it.

The idea seemed to satisfy my mind, and to bring back in a wave of light the first moment when she swept across my vision at the ball in Belgrave Square.