“That is what the girls have told me,” Manella replied, “and I therefore intend tonight to serve exactly what Mrs. Wade had planned.”
She thought that Mr. Dobbins gave a sigh of relief. He must have thought that it would be difficult in those circumstances for her to go wrong.
He then said,
“In the excitement of bringing you back here in triumph, Miss Chinon, I also forgot that you should have seen Mr. Wilson, his Lordship’s secretary, before you started work in the kitchen. He would like to talk to you now about the position and to discuss your salary.”
“Thank you,” Manella said, “and perhaps you would be kind enough show me the way.”
She was taken by Mr. Dobbins through what she thought was a labyrinth of passages.
Eventually they came to the secretary’s room on the other side of t
