ABOUT SERVANTS.
I went to call on Lady Bernard the next day: for there was one subject on which I could better talk with her than with Marion; and that subject was Marion herself. In the course of our conversation, I said that I had had more than usual need of such a lesson as she gave us the night before,—I had been, and indeed still was, so vexed with my nurse.
"What is the matter?" asked Lady Bernard.
"She has given me warning," I answered.
"She has been with you some time—has she not?"
"Ever since we were married."
"What reason does she give?"
"Oh! she wants to better herself, of course," I replied,—in such a tone, that Lady Bernard rejoined,—
"And why should she not better herself?"
"But she has such a false notion of bettering herself. I am confident what she wants will do any thing but better her, if she gets it."