at the tradesmen's knock, as some do."

"Leave the room! Leave it this moment."

"Leave the room, yes--and I'll leave the house too, and tell all the
neighbors what I know about it."

She flounced out and slammed the door; and Rosa sat down, trembling.

Clara rushed to the kitchen, and there told the cook and Andrew Pearman
how she had given it to the mistress, and every word she had said to
her, with a good many more she had not.

The cook laughed and encouraged her.

But Andrew Pearman was wroth, and said, "You to affront our mistress
like that! Why, if I had heard you, I'd have twisted your neck for ye."

"It would take a better man than you to do that. You mind your own
business. Stick to your one-horse chay."

"Well, I'm not above my place, for that matter. But you gals must always
be aping your betters."

"I have got a proper pride, that is all, and you haven't. You ought to
be ashamed of yourself to do two men's work; drive a brougham and wait
on a horse, and then come in and wait at table, You are a tea-kettle
groom, that is what you are. Why, my brother was coachman to Lord
Fitz-James, and gave his lordship notice the first time he had to drive
the children. Says he, 'I don't object to the children, my lord, but