Chapter 20: XX

XX When I got back to the Vicarage I found that we were in the middle of a domestic crisis. Griselda met me in the hall and with tears in her eyes dragged me into the drawing-room. “She’s going.” “Who’s going?” “Mary. She’s given notice.” I really could not take the announcement in a tragic spirit. “Well,” I said, “we’ll have to get another servant.” It seemed to me a perfectly reasonable thing to say. When one servant goes, you get another. I was at a loss to understand …