‘There are still two days,’ she thought with an irrepressible feeling of joy, and she determined to make use of every minute of those days.
She ran upstairs to find Mary almost hysterical with happiness.
“Things are ever so different already, Miss,” she said. “From the moment Mrs. Meadowfield arrived, everything began t’ change.”
“I thought it would,” Pandora said with a smile.
“Two of the housemaids left with Mrs. Jenkins because they’d come with her,” Mary went on. “We’re short-handed but the rest of us will work our fingers t’ the bone, that we will, Miss, t’ make things as they ought t’ be.”
While Pandora was dressing, Mrs. Meadowfield came to see her.
“You have everything you want, Miss Pandora?” she asked.
“Yes, thank you, Mrs. Meadowfield,” Pandora answered. “It is so delight
