He came, I suppose, about two weeks after I got there.

It was only two weeks and yet, the hours at Briar were such slow ones, and the days -- being all quite the same -- were so even and quiet and long, it might have been twice that time. It was long enough, anyway, for me to find out all the peculiar habits of the house; long enough for me to get used to the other servants, and for them to get used to me. For a while, I didn't know why it was they did not care for me. I would go down to the kitchen, saying, "How do you do?" to whoever I met there.

"How do you do, Margaret?"

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