orn; find
out what the quality do, and then do it, and not bother about the
expense. I am going in for a good time, and don't mean to work either. I
told Colvin this morning that I thought I ought to draw a salary of
about four thousand a year, besides our living expenses, and though he
looked at me pretty sharp over his spectacles he said nothing. Arthur is
worth half a million, if he is worth a cent. So, go it, Dolly, while you
are young,' and in the exuberance of his joy Frank kissed his wife on
both cheeks, and then hurried back to his office, where he spent most of
his time trying to be a gentleman.

That day they dined in the kitchen with a leaf of the table turned up as
they had done in Langley, but the next day they had dinner in the
dining-room, and were waited upon by the new girl as well as it was
possible for her to do with her mistress' interference.

'Never mind; Mr. Tracy's in a hurry. Give him his pie at once,' she
said, as Susan was about to clear the table preparatory to the dessert,
but she repented the speech when she saw the look of surprise which the
girl gave her and which expressed more than words could have done.

'Better let her run herself,' Frank said, when Susan had left the room,
'and if she wants to take every darned thing off the table and tip it
over to boot, let her do it. If she has lived three years with Mrs.
Atherton, she knows what is what better than we do.'

'But it takes so long, and I have much to see to in this great house,'
Dolly objected, and her husband replied:

'Get another girl, then; three of them if you like. What matter how many
girls we have so long as Arthur pays for them, and he is bound to do
that. He said so in his letter. You are altogether too economical. I've
told you so a hundred times, and now there is no need of saving. I want
to see you a lady of silks and satins like Mrs. Atherton. Pump that
girl. I tell you, and find out what ladies do!'

This was Frank's advice to his wife, and as far as in her lay she acted
upon it, and whatever Susan told her was done by Mrs. Atherton at Brier
Hill, she tried to do at Tracy Park: all except staying out of the
kitchen. That, from her nature, she could not and would not do.
Consequently she was constantly changing cooks, and frequently took the
helm herself, to the great disgust of her husband, who managed at last
to imbue her with his own ideas of things.

In course of time most of the neighbors who had any claim