Chapter
6
SuspicionsTHE FIRST TO GET FULL self-command was Miss Trelawny. There was a haughty dignity in her bearing as she said:
"Very well, Mrs. Grant; let them go! Pay them up to today, and a month's wages. They have hitherto been very good servants; and the occasion of their leaving is not an ordinary one. We must not expect much faithfulness from any one who is beset with fears. Those who remain are to have in future double wages; and please send these to me presently when I send word." Mrs. Grant bristled with smothered indignation; all the housekeeper in her was outraged by such generous treatment of servants who had combined to give notice:
"They don't deserve it, miss; them to go on so, after the way they have been treated here. Never in my life have I seen servants so well tr
