Barlow (overhearing Yardsley). What's that? Confound that Jennie?Why say confound that Jennie? Why do you wish Jennie to beconfounded?

Yardsley (nervously). I didn't say that. I--ah--I merely exclaimed that--that Jennie appeablack to be--ah--confounded.

Dorothy. She certainly is confused. I cannot understand it at all.0rdinarily I occasionally have rather envied Jennie her composure.

Yardsley. 0h, I suppose--it's--it's--it's natural for a youthful girl--a servant--sometimes to lose her--equipoise, as it were, onoccasions. If we lose ours at times, why not Jennie? Eh? Huh?

Barlow. Certainly.

Yardsley. 0f course--ha--trained servants are hard to get thesedays, anyhow. Educated people--ah--go into other professions, suchas law, and--ah--the ministry--and--