"Amanda," said Daniel impressively, "these ladies are my sisters and when they tell you to do a thing, you must do it."
"Do they hire me and pay me my wages?"
"I hire you and pay you your wages."
"Then have I got four bosses yet at this here place? Not if I know it!"
"Take this coach into the house!" ordered Daniel.
"When Missus tells me to. See?"
"Danny," Sadie offered a suggestion, "leave me take the babies over to our house while their mother is away. The idea of her going off like this and leaving these poor infant twins in the care of a hired girl that she ain't had but a week and don't know anything about! Don't it beat all!"
"I'd thank you not to pass no insinyations against my moral character!" Amanda retorted. "If them twinses own mother could trust 'em to me, I guess it's nobody else's business to come in here interferin'. I wasn't told, when I took this place, that I'd be up against a bunch like this, tryin' to order me round and passin' insults at me!"
"That will do, Amanda," said Daniel with dignity. "Go out to your kitchen."
Amanda flounced away, as Sadie wheeled the baby-coach down the paved garden path to the sidewalk, followed by anxious cautions from Jennie to "go slow" and not strain her back pushing that heavy coach.