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"How should he," answers the old House, "you are so different to what he would expect. Would you recognise your own ghost, think you?" "It is sad to think he would not recognise me," I say. "It might be sadder if he did," grumbles the old House. We both remained silent for awhile; but I know of what the old House is thinking. Soon it speaks as I expected.
Phoebe grumbles far less; it is wonderful to hear her say, sometimes, that she did not know it was bedtime, when I go in to fetch the lamp. Reading? ay, she is always reading; but she sleeps a deal, too. I used to look round Phoebe's room with satisfaction now; it had quite lost its stiff, angular look.
No one really grumbles at this sort of thing, although it is most unpleasant; and as the men are all picked for health and endurance, no one is any the worse for it.
We parted, and I returned to the Palace and told Sapt and Fritz what I had done. Sapt had a few faults to find and a few grumbles to utter. This was merely what I expected, for Sapt liked to be consulted beforehand, not informed afterwards; but on the whole he approved of my plans, and his spirits rose high as the hour of action drew nearer and nearer.
When he sees fit to open his head and grumble about the hard times and the taxes, his words are heeded, and the small fry go about the next day telling how Harlanger, or whatever his name is, has spoken his mind for once. Whoso has five horses or less is a farmer, and he grumbles too. But it does not have the same weight, and is not worth spreading.
"Do you mind if I pull down the Venetian blinds? That will keep some of the sun out." "The blinds are all broken," said Mrs. Howland. "I have spoken to that woman Ross till I am tired, but she never will see to my wishes in any way." "I can't imagine why we stay here, mother." "Oh! don't begin your grumbles now," said Mrs. Howland. "I have news for you when tea is over."
Adeline's grumbles were so seldom heard that her parents could not help smiling at her words, though they acknowledged that her wish was a natural one; but then, where was the suitable girl to be found? "Ah! here we are at last," said Miss Drechsler, as she and Frida drove up to the door of the villa where the Stanfords lived.
'But Dixon, and the girl we are to have to help? 'Oh, wait a minute. I am overpowered by the discovery of my own genius for management. Dixon is to have let me see, I had it once the back sitting-room. I think she will like that. She grumbles so much about the stairs at Heston; and the girl is to have that sloping attic over your room and mamma's. Won't that do? 'I dare say it will.
"For Hasluck," replied my father, "it will be much more convenient. He grumbles every time at the distance." "I have never been quite able to understand," said my mother, "why Mr. Hasluck should have come so far out of his way. There must surely be plenty of solicitors in the City." "He had heard of me," explained my father. It's not everyone who would care for him as a client.
The girls were soon back, all in navy-blue bathing-suits, knickers below, and a belted tunic reaching to their knees above too much clothed for Mollie's taste; she liked to be skimpy when she went swimming. But no one grumbles after they have been in a Circle at least, not for the next twenty-four hours so Mollie endured her substantial garments philosophically and soon forgot all about them.
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