“You work too hard, Florence, wid your teacher. That is what gives you the headache.”
“Then I shan’t have it again, for I have got through with my teaching.”
“What’s that you say?”
“I am discharged.”
“And what’s it all about?”
Florence explained matters. Mrs. O’Keefe became indignant.
“She’s a mean trollop, that Mrs. Leighton!” she exclaimed, “and I’d like to tell her so to her face. Where does she live?”
“It will do no good to interfere, my good friend. She is not willing to receive a governess from a tenement house.“
“Shure you used to live in as grand a house as herself.”
“But I don’t now.”