She was a rather tall, awkward, and strongly-built girl of about fifteen. This was the first impression the \"maid\" gave to her \"mistresses,\" the Misses Leaf, when she entered their kitchen, accompanied by her mother, a widow and washer-woman, by name Mrs. Hand. I must confess, when they saw the damsel, the ladies felt a certain twinge of doubt as to whether they had not been rash in offering to take her; whether it would not have been wiser to have gone on in their old way - now, alas grown into a very old way, so as almost to make them forget they had ever had any other - and done without a servant still. | Mistress And Maid by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters