'
'Did you take it?'
'No, papa, for Eleanor used to say it was a bad trick to lick out
spoons.'
'Did you ever know that she took tea and sugar from the storeroom,
for her mother?'
'Took home tea and sugar to her mother! She could not have done it,
papa. It would be stealing!'
Esther, who was next called for, cried a great deal, and begged for
pardon, pleading again and again that -
'It was mother,' an answer which made her young mistresses again sigh
over the remembrance of Rachel's disregarded advice. Her fate was
left for consideration and consultation with Mr. Devereux, for Mr.
Mohun, seeing himself to blame for having allowed her to be placed in
a situation of so much trial, and thinking that there was much that
was good about her, did not like to send her to her home, where she
was likely to learn nothing but what was bad.
CHAPTER XXIV: LOVE'S LABOUR LOST
'And well, with ready hand and heart,
Each task of toilsome duty taking,
Did one dear inmate take her part,
The last asleep, the earliest waking.'
In the course of the afternoon Lord Rotherwood and Florence called,
to see Eleanor, inquire after Ada, and make the final arrangements
for going to a morning concert at Raynham the next day.
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