You would, I am sure, admire our hill country, and I should like to show you some of the precious autographs we have inherited.
"Yours sincerely, "RACHEL DUNSTABLE.
"If your wife brings a maid, perhaps she will kindly let me know." Doris laughed, and the amused scorn of her laugh annoyed her husband.
However, at that moment their small house-parlourmaid entered with the tea-tray, and Doris rose to make a place for it.

The parlourmaid put it down with much unnecessary noise, and Doris, looking at her in alarm, saw that her expression was sulky and her eyes red.

When the girl had departed, Mrs.Meadows said with resignation-- "There! that one will give me notice to-morrow!" "Well, I'm sure you could easily get a better!" said her husband sharply.
Doris shook her head.
"The fourth in six months!" she said, sighing.

"And she really is a good girl." "I suppose, as usual, she complains of me!" The voice was that of an injured man.
"Yes, dear, she does! They all do.

You give them a lot of extra work already, and all these things you have been buying lately--oh, Arthur, if you _wouldn't_ buy things!--mean more work.