"
"Oh, Howard!" exclaimed Ella, "you surely cannot expect Eugenia
Deane to do a servant's duty. Why, she has been as delicately
brought up as I, and knows quite as little of work."
"More shame for her if this is true," answered Mr. Hastings
somewhat bitterly, and Ella continued.
"You've got such queer ideas, Howard, of _woman's duties._ I
should suppose you would have learned, ere this, that few ladies
are like your mother, who, though a blessed good soul, has the
oddest notions."
"But they make a man's home mighty comfortable, those odd notions
of mother's," said Mr. Hastings; then, knowing how useless it
would be to argue the point, he was about changing the subject,
when the new nurse, who had been there but a few days (the first
one having quarreled with Mrs. Leah, and gone home), came in and
announced her intention of leaving also, saying, "she would not
live in the same house with old mother Leah!"
It was in vain that Mr. Hastings tried to soothe the angry girl--
she was determined, and for a second time was Ella left alone.
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