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There was a servant on each side of the carriage, beside the commander in chief, who occasionally advanced in the front, and occasionally brought up the rear. "And whither," said the affrighted Delia, "whither are we going? This cannot be the way to Southampton. What do you mean? But ah, it is too plain! Why else this impotence of insult?" endeavouring to disengage her hands.
The giantess arose and wiped an eye. She sniveled into the corner of her apron. "Well, I didn't expect to be bossed by a child," she squeaked, "when I came to work here. I don't like it." She flounced out of the room, leaving the piano open and the rolls strewn about. "Oh, dear me! Now I have done it!" groaned Janice Day. "What will Daddy say if I have got Delia mad, and she goes?
She at all events regarded Delia as a "handful," and was on the watch day by day for things outrageous. She could not help liking the beautiful creature almost loving her!
The Garibaldi March came to a noisy conclusion." "Oh, my!" sighed Delia, in her squeaky voice, "ain't that wonderful?" "I should say it was," Janice said quickly. "Wonderful, indeed!" "Oh!" shrieked Delia, flopping around on the bench and glaring at Janice, one hand clutching at her bosom. "You scare't me." "I think you ought to be scared. Your vegetables were boiling over, Delia."
Anne, the placid and imperturbable, was promoted to take the place that Gerty had rejected, in the gentle home of the good sisters. The secret of her birth, whatever it was, never came to light but, she took kindly, as Madam Delia had predicted, to "living genteel," and grew up into a well-behaved mediocrity, unregretful of the show-tent.
"I must have been mad," he exclaimed. It seemed months since he had looked into her face. The clerk he dreaded to meet was off duty, and as the elevator boy knew him he did not approach the desk, but went at once to Helen's apartments. She did not meet him at the door as he had foolishly expected. Delia, the maid, greeted him with a smile, and led him back to the reception-room and left him alone.
"Yes, ma'am," returned Hanny, with a glow of pleasure. Young people were still expected to say "Yes, sir," and "Yes, ma'am," to their elders, out of respect. "That does very well for one family, though the Whitneys seem to have a good share. Miss Delia is quite a success, I hear. And we always find Mr. Whitney very entertaining. Have you known them long?" "Oh, for years, seven almost.
But he did not want to take the trouble to tell her about them. "Guess again," he said. "I can't think of any more girls' names beginning with a D, except Dorcas, in the Bible." "It isn't Dorcas." "Delia?" "No." "You'll have to tell me; I can't think of another thing." "Her name is Diana." "Diana! What a pretty name! Is she pretty?"
logical when the work was neglected. There was nothing laughable in this situation nothing at all! "Oh, if I could only do something myself," murmured the young girl. After what had occurred she thought it best to say nothing more to Delia at the time. She hated to bother daddy again; but she wondered what he would do if he had to confront such circumstances at the bank.
"We shall have plenty to do with those gentry to-morrow!" she said to the girl beside her, drawing her cloak round her so that it displayed a black and orange badge. Delia approached her. "Is Miss Marvell here?" They all stopped and eyed her. "Yes, she's upstairs. She's just come back from the Central. But she's very busy," said the elder lady. "She won't see you without an appointment."
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