"It's all one, Miss Jasmine," she exclaimed; "if it was my dying
breath, I'd have to own that London is not what we pictered
it--vanities there is, and troubles there is, and disappointments most
numerous and most biting. But for the one happy day I spent out with
you dear young ladies, I hasn't known no happiness in London. Oh, Miss
Jasmine," drawing up short and looking her young lady full in the
face--"what dreadful lies them novels tells! I read them afore I came,
and I made up such wonderful picters; but I will own that what with
the ladies in this mansion, as worrit me almost past bearing, and what
with you going away all secret like, and what with me being no longer
Poppy the tare, but Sarah Jane the drudge, even if I was to get one of
the bonnets that they show in the shop windows in Bond Street, why, it
wouldn't draw a smile from me Miss Jasmine!"
CHAPTER XXI.
HOW TO PAINT CHINA AND HOW TO FORM STYLE.
Mrs. Dove had a great many lodgers--she let rooms on each of her
floors, and she called her lodgers by the name of the floor they
occupied--first floor, second floor, third floor came and went to 10,
Eden Street. The girls were known as "the attics," and Jasmine felt
very indignant at the name.
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