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? ? ? ? Grace did not reply. Looking in the face of her future task-mistress was scarcely calculated to awaken a very deep feeling of gratitude.
? ? ? ? "Now," said Mrs. Chase, addressing her new boarder, "just take off your things, Betsy, and make yourself useful."
? ? ? ? "My name isn't Betsy, ma'am."
? ? ? ? "It isn't, isn't it?"
? ? ? ? "No; it is Grace."
? ? ? ? "You don't say so! I'll tell you one thing, I shan't allow anybody to contradict me here, and your name's got to be Betsy while you're in this house. Now take off your things and hang them up on that peg. I'm going to set you right to work."
? ? ? ? "Yes, ma'am," said Grace, alarmed.
? ? ? ? "There's some dishes I want washed, Betsy, and I won't have you loitering over your work, neither."
? ? ? ? "Very well, ma'am."
? ? ? ? Such was the new home for which poor Grace was expected to be grateful.
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