e. It o me, if o deat of my time, any used to oo. S; but t enoug didnt  me to indulge t le to take a kind of pleasure in tidying of o dressing infants. I greo dressing her.

    Lift your arms, miss, Id say. Lift your foot. Step here. Now, here.

    times s say. I turning of all my limbs.

    I did, in time. I kne sed. I kne sending up eggs, I  and told o send soup instead.

    Clear soup, I said. Clear as you can make it. All rigiles, s like it. Mrs Stiles dont o eat it, I ansiles aint Miss Mauds maid. I am.

    So te it all up. . S down  splashed.

    Its only er, I said, seeing

    you. S  anote ealing glances at less. Finally she said:

    I ter tle fat in it...quot;

    t o go into  her a fresh pair of

    aloves myself, to sit and c. Let me do it, I said, undoing tton at ; and t first s let me toucime—since I said I le— so let me.  t ly clean, and gre of oo smooto be rig  t . I  of my lap and tand and curn black. Surned to asimes Id stand and look h

    her.

    For t to notice, at Briar, t t cead, t: to to see  ed or dropped. In tumn, it floods, Maud said, and all t care for t. And some nige mist comes creeping from ter, almost to t gave beneats stle t is freezing already. Do you see  struggles? It s to flo till it. Do you see, Sue? he rushes?

    Sc of  ts only er, miss.

    Only er?

    Broer.

    She blinked.

    You are cold, I said to t too long. I put  mine. I did it, not tayed stiff. But t day—or perhe day