the gardener and the maid and again they’d repair to a fair-to-middling house, her husband to his fair-to-middling law practice, awaiting a change of heart in The People. And this small woman beside her had been born to nothing. She had inquired of her husband as to who Mrs Burbank was, and he had inquired, and found she had run some kind of rooming house. Rooming house or not, it was she who

