you what I expect you to do, and I know you are too sensible a girl
to throw away a good position--"

"Mrs. Salisbury, if I intended to say anything in such a little talk
that would reflect on this family, or even to mention it, it would
be different, but, as it is--"

"I should hope you WOULDN'T mention this family!" Mrs. Salisbury
said hotly. "But even without that--"

"It would be merely an outline of what the school is, and what it
tries to do," Justine interposed. "Miss Holley, our founder and
President, was most anxious to have us interest the general
public in this way, if ever we got a chance."

"What Miss Holley--whoever she is--wanted, or wants, is nothing to
me!" Mrs. Salisbury said magnificently. "You know what I feel about
this matter, and I have nothing more to say."

She left the kitchen on the very end of the last word, and Justine,
perforce not answering, hoped that the affair was concluded, once
and for all.

"For Mrs. Sargent may think she can exasperate me by patronizing my
maid," said Mrs. Salisbury guardedly, when telling her husband and
daughter of the affair that evening, "but there is a limit to
everything, and I have had about enough of this efficiency
business!"

"I can only beg, Mother dear, that you won't have a row with Owen's