Child Friday
“She had, so far, made little impression on the members of Dane’s household. Mrs. Pride, the cook-housekeeper, had been in old Mr. Carey’s service for nearly twenty years and had remained to look after Dane, preferring a constantly changing succession of daily help from the village of Pennycross to another woman living in the house. Like Shorty she was London bred, and also like Shorty, she was unfriendly and obstructive unless she was dealing directly with her employer. Emily wondered if the li...ttle girl, too, would look her up and down and tender bare civility because she must. At first she had welcomed the thought of the child, for Dane made her nervous. She found it increasingly difficult to refrain from offering help when he fumbled for some object which was within her own reach, and she could not get used to meeting him in the dark, moving with uncanny assurance from room to room. On the second evening he blundered into an armchair, and, cursing roundly, demanded to know who had moved it.“I did,”MoreLess
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