Finally she took the plunge.
"I might have told Miss Dale she could have been lookin' for a cook as well--and a housemaid--" she muttered at last, "but they hadn't spoken to me then." Miss Cornelia sat bolt upright in bed.

"A cook--and a housemaid?
But we have a cook and a housemaid, Lizzie! You don't mean to tell me--" Lizzie nodded her head.

"Yes'm.

They're leaving.

Both of 'em.