"
"Oh, we'll have to have a car--I'm glad you see it," said Bert.
The Buller deal being duly completed, they got their car. The
picturesque garage was no longer useless. A silent, wizened little
Frenchman and his wife took possession of the big room over the
kitchen, Pierre to manage the garden and the car, Pauline to cook-
-she was a marvellous cook. Nancy kept Agnes, and got a little
maid besides, who was to make herself generally useful in dining
room and bedrooms.
The new arrangement worked like a charm. There was no woman in the
Gardens who did not envy the Bradleys their cook, and Nancy felt
the possession of Pauline a real feather in her cap. Pauline
exulted in emergencies, and Nancy and Bert experienced a fearful
delight when they put her to the test, and sat bewildered at their
own table, while the dainty courses followed one another from some
mysterious source to which Pauline alone held the clue,
The children were somewhat in the background now, but they seemed
well cared for, and contented enough when they made their
occasional appearances before their mother's friends. There was a
fine private school in the Gardens, and although the fees for the
two boys, with music lessons twice weekly, came to thirty dollars
a month, Nancy paid it without self-reproach.
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