Mrs. Insoley.

Aren’t you afraid she’ll corrupt the other servants?

Miss Vernon.

[With a smile.] She’s a highly respectable person of well over forty.

Mrs. Insoley.

She must be very flighty. I would as soon have an atheist.

Miss Hall.

I would never dream of having a Romish maid myself.

Mrs. Insoley.

Is there any likelihood of your having a maid at all, Louisa?