"Very good, sir."
"You can get to it from the inside, can't you? Because you're not to go out of doors."
"Oh, yes, thank you, sir."
Two minutes later the car was in the garage, and Thomas and I were making our way back past the kitchens. Outside the Cromwell room I stopped.
"You may take Miss Mansel's dressing-case to her room and see to her fire, then you are to go back to bed."
"It won't take a minute to serve you, sir."
"Thomas, you are to do as I say. It was very good of you to come down. I'm much obliged. Good night."
"Good night, sir. Oh—"
"Yes?"
"I forgot to tell you, sir, there's a temporary maid will wait on Miss Mansel in the morning, sir. Susan's had to go away sudden. I think her father's ill, sir."