. All I can say is that I hope you and Mr. Stephen will
get on all right, miss. If there's anything I can do to help you, by way
of friendship, please let me know. I'd be glad, for old times' sake. And
the cook wanted me to tell you that, being as she's got another job in
sight and was paid up to date, she wouldn't wait for notice, but was
leaving immediate. She's gone already, miss."

The second maid went also. But Annie, Irish and grateful, refused to go.
Her mother came to back her in the refusal.

"Indeed she'll not leave you, Miss Caroline--you nor Captain Warren
neither. Lord love him! Sure, d'ye think we'll ever forget what you and
him done for me and my Pat and the childer? You've got to have somebody,
ain't you? And Annie's cookin' ain't so bad that it'll kill yez; and
I'll learn her more. Never mind what the wages is, they're big enough.
She'll stay! If she didn't, I'd break her back."

So, when the apartment was given up, and Captain Elisha and his wards
moved to the little house in Westchester County, Annie came with them.
And her cooking, though not by any means equal to that at Delmonico's,
had not killed them yet. Mrs. Moriarty came once a week to do the
laundry work. Caroline acted as a sort of inexperienced but willing
supervising housekeeper.

The house itself had been procured through the kind interest of
Sylvester. Keeping the apartment was, under the circumstances, out of
the question, and Caroline hated it and was only too anxious to give it
up. She had no suggestions to make. She would go anywhere, anywhere
that her guardian deemed best; but might they not please go at once? She
expected that he would suggest South Denboro, and she would have gone
there without a complaint. To get away from the place where she had been
so miserable was her sole wish. And trusting and believing in her uncle
as she now did, realizing that he had been right always and had worked
for her interest throughout, and having been shown the falseness and
insincerity of the others whom she had once trusted implicitly, she
clung to him with an appeal almost piteous. Her pride was, for the
time, broken. She was humble and grateful. She surrendered to him
unconditionally, and hoped only for his forgiveness and love.

The captain did not suggest South Denboro. He did, however, tell
Sylvester that he believed a little place out of the city would be the
better refuge for the present.

"Poor Caroline's switched clear around,"