" Well, why shouldn't I? I'm going to set
Broomie on to some of the cottages in the village--not that
she'll want setting on--but after all, it's I who know the
people.
'But that's by the way. The point is why did father give in?
Evidently because Broomie gave notice, and he couldn't bear the
idea of parting with her. Of course Alice--and Margaret too, to
some extent--are convinced it all means that father wants to
marry her. Only Alice thinks that Miss Bremerton has been
intriguing for it since the first week she set foot in the
house; while Margaret is certain that she wouldn't marry father
if he asked her. She thinks that Miss B. is just the new woman,
who wants to _do_ things, and isn't always thinking about
getting married. Well, Dezzy, old boy--_I_ don't know what to
think. I'll keep my eyes open, and report to you. I
_don't--altogether--like her_. No, I don't--that's flat. I
wish, on the whole, she'd taken her departure! And yet I feel
rather a toad for saying so.
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