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said was a good idea they fell right in with. They didn't know and they didn't want to grind down the face of the poor. Sometimes these people put it over jolly well. They would say they were supposed to do this and didn't need to do that. The Smiths would never insist on their doing things that people who had been accustomed to running a large household would jolly well know that the second housemaid ought to do. Some of them were awfully good and for most things they were very honorable. They wanted to please the friends of the Smiths and give the Smiths a good reputation. So they did well. They made the house look right. They carried up glasses of water on silver trays properly, and all that kind of thing. But sometimes they'd be very slack about it. They'd been known to bring a glass of water in without putting it on a silver tray. There were little carelessnesses like that that weren't necessary. The State of New York provides plenty of silver trays to carry glasses of water around on and sort of expects that things will be done in the Executive Mansion in the ways that are proper.

This outfit did put things over a little. They were careless and easy going. They made them hire in more extra people when there was a big dinner than necessary because they didn't know how many people one man could wait on. If the butler said they needed four extras, they had four