and him and all the rest of the family.
“Do you know that Lady Florence has broken off her engagement with me?”
“Indeed, sir?”
Not a bit of sympathy! I might have been telling him it was a fine day.
“You’re sacked!”
“Very good, sir.”
He coughed gently.
“As I am no longer in your employment, sir, I can speak freely without appearing to take a liberty. In my opinion you and Lady Florence were quite unsuitably matched. Her ladyship is of a highly determined and arbitrary temperament, quite opposed to your own. I was in Lord Worplesdon’s service for nearly a year, during which time I had ample opportunities of studying her ladyship. The opinion of the servants’ hall was far from favourable