Ask Miss Ratcliffe if it isn't!" Olga looked a little scornful.

It suddenly seemed to her that Max Wyndham required a snub.

She was spared the trouble of administering one, however, by the reappearance of the housemaid.
She rose.

"Do you want me, Ellen ?" "Oh, no, miss.

It's all right," was Ellen's breezy reply.