The things we do!

"
Perhaps Lady Anne's sentence was not going to end in a very satisfactory
way for Miss Honeyman; but, awed by a peculiar look of resolution in the
little lady, her lodger of an hour paused in whatever offensive remark
she might have been about to make. "It is as well that I at last have the
pleasure of seeing you, that I may state what I want, and that we may, as
you say, understand each other. Breakfast and tea, if you please, will be
served in the same manner as dinner. And you will have the kindness to
order fresh milk every morning for my little boy--ass's milk--Doctor
Goodenough has ordered ass's milk. Anything further I want I will
communicate through the person who spoke to you--Kuhn, Mr. Kuhn; and that
will do."
A heavy shower of rain was descending at this moment, and little Mrs.
Honeyman looking at her lodger, who had sate down and taken up her book,
said, "Have your ladyship's servants unpacked your trunks?"
"What on earth, madam, have you--has that to do with the question?"
"They will be put to the trouble of packing again, I fear.


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