"
"Hark at her! Who said you were? Have I not told you the only two
things you are?"
"But I am treated as a prisoner, I am treated as a slave," sobbed
Annalise.
"Unmannerly one, how dare you linger talking follies when your royal
mistress is waiting for her tea? Run--run! Or must I show you how?"
"Her Grand Ducal Highness," said Annalise, not budging, "told me also
to prepare the bath for her this evening."
"Well, what of that?" cried Fritzing, snatching up the bill again and
adding up furiously. "Prepare it, then."
"I see no water-taps."
"Woman, there are none."
"How can I prepare a bath without water-taps?"
"O thou Inefficiency! Ineptitude garbed as woman! Must I then teach
thee the elements of thy business? Hast thou not observed the pump? Go
to it, and draw water. Cause the water to flow into buckets. Carry
these buckets--need I go on? Will not Nature herself teach thee what
to do with buckets?"
Annalise flushed scarlet. "I will not go to the pump," she said.
"What, you will not carry out her Grand Ducal Highness's orders?"
"I will not go to the pump.
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