Our Christmas Party #231411

Now you must not think that this was an expression of Rebecca's real state of feeling, nor that I was in the least degree alarmed or vexed at the light in which she viewed my proposition Faithful old servants, who have lived in one's family for a generation or so, do get queer whims, and contract habits which could not be tolerated in upstart new comers. Rebecca never gives way to an explosion like this if anybody else is present, and I have two or three alternatives always in reserve for pacifying her.