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"She may be in England, Scotland, or Ireland, for all I know," Miss Notman answered, with an unaffected ignorance which placed her good faith beyond doubt. "Consult your own taste, Father. After eating jelly, cream, and ice-pudding, could you even look at an oyster-omelet without shuddering? Would you believe it? Her ladyship proposed to serve the omelet with the cheese. Oysters, after sweets!
'An oyster-omelet, I suggested, 'surely comes after the birds? I should be sorry to say that her ladyship lost her temper I will only mention that I kept mine. Let me repeat what she said, and leave you, Father, to draw your own conclusions. She said, 'Which of us is mistress in this house, Miss Notman?
"But when Lady Loring deliberately gives a ball, without a supper, I must hide my head somewhere and it had better be out of the house!" Taking Miss Notman as representative of a class, the reception of the coming experiment looked, to say the least of it, doubtful. On the appointed evening, the guests made one agreeable discovery when they entered the reception rooms.
"I once made the same remark myself to Lady Loring," she said. Father Benwell's pulse began to quicken its beat. "Yes?" he murmured, in tones of the gentlest encouragement. "And her ladyship," Miss Notman proceeded, "did not encourage me to go on.
Nettie Rogers Shuler, Buffalo; 9th, Mrs. Carl Osterheld, Yonkers; 10th, Mrs. Gordon Norrie, Staatsburg; 11th, Miss Evanetta Hare, succeeded by Mrs. George Notman, Keene Valley; 12th, Miss Lucy C. Watson, Utica. Under all of these chairmen came the 150 assembly district leaders and under these the 5,524 election district captains.
Miss Notman laid herself back in her easy chair she looked as if she had suffered martyrdom, and only regretted having been obliged to mention it. Father Benwell surprised the wounded gentlewoman by rising to his feet. "You are not going away already, Father?" "Time flies fast in your society, dear Miss Notman. I have an engagement and I am late for it already." The housekeeper smiled sadly.
"I generally enjoy my duties," Miss Notman answered. "To-day, they have not been so agreeable as usual; it is a relief to me to have done with them. Even my humble position has its trials." Persons acquainted with Miss Notman's character, hearing these last words, would have at once changed the subject.
"I see, Miss Notman, that you are a consummate mistress of an art which is quite beyond poor me. Was Miss Eyrecourt present at the little discussion?" "Oh, no! Indeed, I should have objected to her presence; I should have said she was a young lady out of her proper place." "Yes; I understand. Is Miss Eyrecourt an only child?" "She had two sisters, Father Benwell. One of them is in a convent."
The Party leaders had often publicly to repudiate the "militant" tactics. In the parade of Oct. 28, 1917, the Party exhibited placards which read: "We are opposed to Picketing the White House. We stand by the Country and the President." During the campaign, Miss Hay had associated with her on the executive board, Mrs. Slade, Mrs. Aldrich, Mrs. George Notman, Miss Annie Doughty, Mrs.
"Is your coffee to your liking, Father?" "A little more sugar, if you please." Miss Notman was proud of her hand, viewed as one of the meritorious details of her figure. She took up the sugar-tongs with suavity and grace; she dropped the sugar into the cup with a youthful pleasure in ministering to the minor desires of her illustrious guest.
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