Maybe I shall soon, for Marie has a way of finding out anything she wants to know.

Marie is my new maid.

Cousin Kate went to Paris last week, to be gone until nearly Christmas, so she got Marie to take care of me.
"It seems so odd to have somebody button my boots and brush my hair, and take me out to walk as if I were a big doll.

I have to be very dignified and act as if I had always been used to such things.

I believe Marie would be shocked to death if she knew that I had ever washed dishes, or pulled weeds out of the pavement, or romped with you in the barn.
"Yesterday when we were out walking I got so tired of acting as if I were a hundred years old, that I felt as if I should scream.