'What have I
to do with these people?'
'What have you to do with them? I s'pose they're your relations,
ain't they? And I s'pose the girl Annie Rudd is your niece, ain't
she? At least, she's your wife's niece, and that comes to the
same thing, I've always understood, though I dare say a gentleman
as has so many books about him can correct me if I've made a
mistake.'
She looked scornfully, though also with some surprise, round the
volumed walls.
'And what of this girl? Will you have the goodness to say what
your business is?'
'Yes, I will have the goodness! I s'pose you know very well that
I took your niece Annie Rudd as a domestic servant'--she repeated
this precise definition--'as a domestic servant, because Mrs Yule
'appened to 'arst me if I knew of a place for a girl of that
kind, as hadn't been out before, but could be trusted to do her
best to give satisfaction to a good mistress? I s'pose you know
that?'
'I know nothing of the kind. What have I to do with servants?'
'Well, whether you've much to do with them or little, that's how
it was.
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