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the man returned, and said the young woman was to walk
upstairs.
‘It’s no good being proper in this world,’ said the first
housemaid.
‘Brass can do better than the gold what has stood the fire,’
said the second.
The third contented herself with wondering ‘what ladies
was made of’; and the fourth took the first in a quartette of
‘Shameful!’ with which the Dianas concluded.
Regardless of all this: for she had weightier matters at
heart: Nancy followed the man, with trembling limbs, to
a small ante-chamber, lighted by a lamp from the ceiling.
Here he left her, and retired.