“But you will travel first in a sleeping-car.”
Mrs. Forbes put up her hand to her pork-pie cap, as if considering.
“Very well, madam, to oblige you I will undergo it,” she said at length. “But I would not do the like for another living lady.”
“I will raise your wages. You are a faithful creature.”
“Does master expect us, madam?” asked Mrs. Forbes as she prepared to retire.
A bright and tender look stole into Mrs. Greyne’s intellectual face.
“No,” she replied.
She turned her large and beaming eyes full upon the maid.
“Mrs. Forbes,” she said, with an amount of emotion that was very rare in her, “I am going to tell you a great truth.”
“Madam?” said Mrs. Forbes respectfully.