Rose is with Madame la Grace, your mantua-maker, who says she is more handy and more expert at cutting out than girls she has had these three years.

Marianne is in the service of Madame de V---, who has lost a great part of her large fortune, and cannot afford to keep her former waiting-maid.

Madame de V--- is well pleased with Marianne, and bids me tell you that she thanks you for her.

Indeed, Marianne, though she is only fourteen, can do everything her lady wants.

Susanne is with a confectioner.