It is true that gentlemen and ladies who have servants do not usually wish to talk about their private matters before all the household, even though the private matters may be known; but this household was unlike all others in that respect.

There was not a housemaid about the rooms or a groom in the stables who did not know how terrible a reprobate their master had been.
"You will see your father before you go to bed ?" Miss Scarborough said to her nephew as she left the room.
"Certainly, if he will send to say that he wishes it." "He does wish it, most anxiously." "I believe that to be your imagination.

At any rate, I will come--say in an hour's time.

He would be just as pleased to see Harry Annesley, for the matter of that, or Mr.Grey, or the inspector of police.

Any one whom he could shock, or pretend to shock, by the peculiarity of his opinions, would do as well." By that time, however, Miss Scarborough had left the room.
Then the three men sat and talked, and discussed the affairs of the family generally.