"What duty ?" "Why," she exclaimed, "haven't you got a new place ?" "New place!" he repeated after.

"What do you mean ?" "Why, as valet." There was certainly danger in his tendency to forget that he was a valet.

He collected himself.
"No," he said, "I haven't got a new place." "Then why are you staying here ?" she cried.

"I thought you were simply here with a new master, Why are you staying here alone ?" "Oh," he replied, abashed, "it seemed a convenient place.

It was just by chance that I came here." "Convenient place indeed!" she said stoutly.