Lot Barrow (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lot Barrow
When Mr. Child came into the house at dusk he found his wife alone in the kitchen.
"The new girl come yet?" he asked.
"Yes," said Mrs. Child, in a cautious whisper. "And for a young girl with a history like hers behind her, she came in with an air of great assurance."
"Well, she won't come lording it here," said Mr. Child, with one of his tremendous yawns, as he stooped to turn his trousers higher up. To his wife's confidential tones he usually replied in a particularly emphatic voice, saying, if she remonstrated: "It won't harm any one to overhear the truth."
"She wasn't cast down, as I expected," said Mrs. Child. "When I went to the door I said: 'Good afternoon; walk inside.' She said: 'Good afternoon, Mrs. Child; how glad I am to be here at last.' She said: 'I do hope we shall get on.' 'We're all hard workers here, ' I said. 'It doesn't leave us much time to quarrel.' She's one of those big, strapping girls with a pretty face."
"Has Humphrey been inside?"
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