"No, come on! Let's go!" and they turned away. At that Lionel became excited.
"We shall lose them altogether! They are going!"
So then Plunkett got up courage and went to them.
"Damsels, listen! We would hire you. Have you ears? If your floors and platters glisten, ye shall stay with us for years!"
"Yes—for—for years," Lionel managed to say.
"What, as your servants?" Lady Harriet gasped. Nancy laughed.
"You are laughing?" Lionel said. He was very anxious to hire them. They were quite the handsomest serving maids he had ever seen.
"No trouble about that," Plunkett declared. "If she laughs, she will certainly be good-natured about her work."
"What work?"
"What work?" Lady Harriet and Nancy said in one breath.