I think you're the only one she'll say 'miss' to.

But we couldn't do without her.

Mrs.Nash was telling me the other day that her girl had left in the middle of the washing, and the one they had before that for a year--a little French Romanist--stole all their handkerchiefs, and did not give them back till she made confession to her priest at Easter.

It was very _awkward_, Sophia, to be without handkerchiefs all winter." The crescendo emphasis which Mrs.Rexford had put into her remarks found its fortissimo here.

Then she added more mildly, "Though I got no character with Eliza I am convinced she will never pilfer." Mrs.Rexford was putting her needle out and in with almost electric speed.