Let me recall you both to memory.

Let me think of you, the kind, generous, warm-hearted mistress; a gentlewoman by descent and by feeling; a true friend, a sincere Christian.

And let me think, too, of you, Sandy, an honest, faithful, and attached member of the family.

For you were in that house rather as a humble friend than a servant.

But out of this fifty years of attached service there sprang a sort of domestic relation and freedom of intercourse which would surprise people in these days.