"Can you stop--can you sit down for a moment? I have something to say to you, if you would give up that everlasting walk, walk, walk."
He sat down instantly, on a chair against the wall.
"I want to speak to you about Betsy. She says she must leave us; that her lover's death has so affected her spirits she can't give her heart to her work."
"Very well. I suppose other cooks are to be met with."
"That's so like a man. It's not merely the cooking, it is that she knows all the ways of the house. Besides, she tells me something about your friend Miss Hale."

'Can you sit down for a moment? I have something to say to you, if you would give up that everlasting walk, walk, walk.'
He sat down instantly.
'I want to speak to you about Betsy. She says she must leave us; that her lover's death has so affected her spirits she can't work.'
'Very well. I suppose other cooks are to be found.'
'That's so like a man. It's not merely the cooking, it is that she knows all the ways of the house. Besides, she tells me something about your friend Miss Hale.'
