Won't you take Effie for a little while ?" "Where's the nurse ?" "She's out.

Of course she has to have some time to herself." "You just spoil the servants.

It's her business to take care of the child.

What else is she paid for?
Why can't one of the other maids take her ?" "Effie is too nervous to go to strangers to-night." "Oh, well, give her to me, then." The sensitive little organization knew at once that it was in the hands not only of a comparative stranger, but also of one whose touch revealed little sympathy, and its protest was so great that the tired mother took it again, while the beautiful daughter, the cynosure of all eyes in public, went to her room to finish the "exciting scene" at her leisure.
But the scene had grown unreal.

Its hero was but a shadow, and a distorted one at that.