"Now, Mary Grosgrain, you don't mean that she has been anybody's servant?"
"Well, I do not say that, positively, but I know Mrs. Grey picked her up in a tenement-house. Fancy our visiting an inmate of a tenement-house!"
"How tall she is!"
"And how she was dressed! Not a ring or a bracelet, or a bow or a puff. But of course Mrs. Grey has to keep her down."
"I saw a great smooch of paint on her sleeve," said Miss Mary.
"She hasn't a particle of style," said Miss Flora.
"Of course not; how should she? She has not had our advantages."
"I heard that she was a splendid-looking girl," said Miss Grosgrain.
"From whom?"