They ought to know what you've paid them for.

The dust's just awful.

It's all over the easel.' 'I don't use it much now.' 'All over the pictures and the floor, and all over your coat.

I'd like to speak to them housemaids.' 'Ring for tea, then.' Dick felt his way to the one chair he used by custom.
Bessie saw the action and, as far as in her lay, was touched.

But there remained always a keen sense of new-found superiority, and it was in her voice when she spoke.
'How long have you been like this ?' she said wrathfully, as though the blindness were some fault of the housemaids.
'How ?' 'As you are.' 'The day after you went away with the check, almost as soon as my picture was finished; I hardly saw her alive.' 'Then they've been cheating you ever since, that's all.