Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lady at Home: Or, Leaves From the Every-Day Book of an American Woman
I was sitting, one day, pleasantly occupied with a new volume, when the door Opened quietly, and my cook, an Irish girl, (a very excellent one, by the way, ) came in, and advanced towards me.
Well, Jane, is any thing wanted? I asked, in the mild tone in which I always endeavor to speak to my domestics.
I should like to go out for a couple of hours, if you have no objection, Mrs. Elmwood, Jane replied, in a respectful voice. Now Jane had been out only two days before, on her regular afternoon for going, and I felt that it was hardly right for her to want two afternoons in the week. So I said, a little coldly.
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