Mr. Goacher agreed with Mrs. Poulter that, for the reasons she gave,
it would be desirable to remove from Russell House. He also felt
that, as a clergyman, he would do wisely in leaving, for he could
not ascribe the disappearance of 'the domestic' to anything but a
consciousness of guilt.
Miss Taggart considered that Mrs. Mudge's conduct was due to
defective training. As to Helen, Miss Taggart added that 'you never
feel yourself secure against moral delinquency in the classes from
which servants are drawn. They have no basis.'
'I understand,' said Mrs. Poulter, 'that Helen is a Dissenter.'
Miss Taggart, as the reader has been told, was not particularly fond
of Mrs. Poulter and Mr. Goacher, but to stay with Mrs. Mudge and
Miss Everard was impossible. She had also once or twice received a
hint from Miss Toller that perhaps she had better suit herself
elsewhere, as the minute attention she demanded to her little needs,
of which there were many, was trying both to mistress and servant.
Miss Toller was promptly informed that three of her lodgers were
going at the end of the month.
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