The things we do!

"Take this lady up to the room in the east part. See that she has
everything she wants. She is not to be disturbed there until
morning, do you hear, Sally? When you come down I want to see you
again. You others there, make your duty to this lady. Call her
Miss Josephine. When she wants anything, you jump and get it. Go
on, now."
They scattered grinning, all but the bent and grizzled old woman
Sally, who now came forward. She looked with blank brown eyes at
the new-comer, herself inscrutable as the Sphinx. If she commented
mentally on the droop of the young woman's mouth and eyes, at least
she said nothing. It was not her place to ask what white folk did,
or why. She took up the traveling-bags and led the way up the
narrow stairway which made out of the central hall.
"Sally," said Josephine, turning, when they reached the stairway,
"where's my own maid--the other--Jeanne?"
"I dunno, Ma'am," said Sally. "I reckon she's all right, though.
Dis heah's yuah room, Ma'am, if you please.


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