“Well, we used to act little pieces sometimes at Carlisle, I and the Grandison girls and Lucretia Carnwath. There has never been anything of the sort here.”
“Did they think you did it well?”
“Lucretia Carnwath and Diana Grandison were thought the best performers; but once they said I made a capital housemaid.”
“Were you ever a laundress?”
“No, but I dare say I could have managed it.”
“Are you willing to try?”
“I am ready to do anything, if it will help Angus. I don’t see at present how my playing the laundress is to do that.”
“You will not play it on a mock stage in a drawing-room, but in reality. Neither you nor I are to do the hardest part of the work; Colonel Keith takes that.”
“What have I to do?”
“To carry a basket of clothes into the prison, and bring it out again.”