It was too bad
that he should worry her, after all she had done for him. As for his
wife--nothing would induce her to see Mrs. Piper. Neither did she wish
Piper to come down to Beechfield. She was particularly anxious that the
man should not learn of Godfrey Radmore's return to England.
Unfortunately Radmore was on the lookout for a good manservant.
She took up the other letter. It was a nice, prosperous-looking, well
addressed envelope, very different from the other. Perhaps this second
letter would contain something that would cheer her up. But alas! when
she opened it, she found it was from Mrs. Winter, Piper's late employer's
wife.
Poor Enid Crofton! As she stood there reading it, she turned a little
sick. Piper had got drunk the very first day he had been in his new
situation. While drunk he had tried to kiss a virtuous young housemaid.
There had been a regular scene, which had ended in the lady of the house
being sent for. There and then Piper had been turned out neck and crop.
It was not only a justifiably angry letter, it was a very disagreeable
letter, the writer saying plainly that Mrs. Crofton had been very much to
blame for recommending such a man.
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