The situation is deplorable enough, however you take it, without making it positively unbearable.

You will remember, Mary ?" Mary said, "Yes, Aunt Jane," very polite and proper; but I can tell you that inside of Mary, _Marie_ was just boiling.
Unbearable, indeed! We didn't say anything more all the way home.

Naturally, _I_ was not going to, after that speech; and Aunt Jane said nothing.

So silence reigned supreme.
Then we got home.

Things looked quite natural, only there was a new maid in the kitchen, and Nurse Sarah wasn't there.