A little later on you
will be able to steal an hour or so for yourself, as while her ladyship
is undergoing the elaborate processes of the toilette, your services
will not be required. On coming down, if the weather be fine, she will
want the support of your arm during her stroll on the terrace. If the
weather be wet, she will probably attend to her correspondence and
book-keeping, and you will have to fill the parts both of amanuensis and
accountant. When Mr. Madgin, her ladyship's man of business, comes up to
Deepley Walls, you will have to be in attendance to take notes, write
down instructions, and so on. By-and-by will come luncheon, of which, as
a rule, you will partake with her. After luncheon you will be your own
mistress for an hour while her ladyship sleeps. The moment she wakes you
will have to be in attendance, either to play to her, or else to read to
her--perhaps a little French or Italian, in both of which languages I
hope you are tolerably proficient. Your next duty will be to accompany
her ladyship in her drive out. When you get back, will come dinner, but
only when specially invited will you sit down with Lady Chillington.
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