Between 'nerves' and Archibald, his temper was raw on the edges.
"'Say,' he bursts out, 'you look kind of pale to me.

What you need is fresh air.

Why don't you go take a walk ?' "The girl looked at him with her mouth open.
"'Oh,' says she, 'I couldn't do that, thank you, sir.

That would leave no one but the cook and the kitchen girl.

And the master said you was to be made perfectly comf'table, and--' "'Yes,' says Sim, dry, 'I heard him say it.