Beyond the City

If you please mum said the voice of a domestic from somewhere round the angle of the door number three is moving in. Two little old ladies who were sitting at either side of a table sprang to their feet with ejaculations of interest and rushed to the window of the sitting-room. Take care Monica dear said one shrouding herself in the lace curtain; don't let them see us. No no Bertha. We must not give them reason to say that their neighbors are inquisitive. But I think that we are safe if we stand like this.