CRAIG’S WIFE
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- whether you dust it or not.” “Well,” I sez, “let it need it,” I sez. I sez, “A little dust won’t poison it.” I sez, “We’ll be dust ourselves some day, unless we get drownded.”
- [She goes to the portières.
Mazie
- You done right.
Mrs. Harold
- Oh, I told her.
- [She glances out through the rooms.
Mazie
- I think the worst kind of a woman a girl can work for is one that’s crazy about her house.
Mrs. Harold
- I do, too; because I think they are crazy half the time. You know, you can go crazy over a house, Mazie, the same as you can over anything else.
Mazie
- Sure you can.
Mrs. Harold
- Doctor Nicholson’s wife was one of them; although she wasn’t as generous a woman as this one.
Mazie
- No, that’s one thing you’ve got to say for Mrs. Craig; she’s not stingy.
Mrs. Harold
- No, that’s true, she isn’t.
Mazie
- I don’t think I’ve ever worked in a house where there was as good a table for the help.
Mrs. Harold
- That’s right; you always get whatever they get.
