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262 too, and they didn't even find his body, it was sunk so deep in the river.

Really, it was one of the most terrible experiences Fräulein ever went through, and it was weeks before she felt well enough to leave the hospital, and it was a long time before she was anything like herself again.

Just the other day, Fräulein saw in the newspaper how a young man, the son of wealthy American parents, lost his life trying to save one of his mother's servants from drowning.

She was nothing but an Irish kitchen maid, but it didn't make the slightest difference to him. She went out too far, and a wave carried her out into the sea, and he tried to save her from drowning, and that is how he lost his life himself. He had horses and lived in a marble mansion, and had everything you could want, and yet, he had the same respect for servants that he had for anybody else, and didn't think himself too fine to try to save one from drowning. And Fräulein has always said, if children were brought up more like that, it would be better for everybody.

For there's nothing worse than having it thrown in your face the whole time that you're a servant. You might think it was your fault that you had to earn your own living! From the way people carry on, you might think so. And then the way they say, "Don't make a scene in front of the servants," right in your face, as if you had no more feelings than a stone!

Fräulein has always said, the real ladies and gentlemen are those that have the most consideration for their servants. It always shows what people really are, the way they treat their inferiors. Fräulein knew about a lady who had houses in the city and houses in the country, and everything money can buy, and yet looked after her servants the way she would after her own relatives. If anybody really was a lady, it was she. For instance, on Sundays, she'd let them go driving in her own victoria, and when they were old, she'd give them enough to live on, so that they could look forward to their last days without having to be afraid the whole time they would have to go to the poorhouse. And when they were sick, or anything, she'd have her own doctor to look after them, and if