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Meantime two or three of the servants had gathered on the landing at the
sound of my husband's voice, and among them was the flinty housekeeper
holding the Father's little bag, and she gave it back to him as he
passed her.
Then, all being over, the woman came into my room, with an expression of
victorious mischief in her eyes and said:
"Your ladyship had better have listened to them as knows, you see."
I was too benumbed by that cruel stroke to reply, but Price said enough
for both of us.
"If them as knows," she said, "don't get out of this room inside two
seconds they'll get their ugly faces slapped."
* * * * *
I thought I had reached the end of my power of endurance, and that
night, before going to bed, while my maid was taking down my hair, and I
was thinking of Martin and asking myself if I should put up with my
husband's brutalities any longer, I heard her say:
"If I were a lady married to the wrong man, I'd have the right one if I
had to go through the divorce court for him.


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