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of her departure Mamsell Agata had set to work
rubbing and scrubbing my dainty Louis XVI
chairs, beating mercilessly my priceless Persian
rugs with a hard stick, washing the pale marble
face of my Florentine Madonna with soap and
water, she had even succeeded in getting off the
wonderful lustre of the Gubbio vase on the writing
table. If Mamsell Agata had been born four
hundred years ago no trace of medieval art would
have remained to-day. But how long ago was
she born? She looked exactly the same as when
I had seen her as a boy in my old home in Sweden.
My elder brother had inherited her when the old
home broke up. A man of exceptional courage
as he is, he had succeeded in getting rid of her and
handing her over to me. Mamsell Agata was the
very thing for me, he had written, there never
was a housekeeper like her. He was right there.
Ever since, I in my turn, had tried to get rid of
her. I used to invite my bachelor friends and
stray acquaintances for luncheon, they all said I
was lucky indeed to have such a wonderful cook.
I told them I was going to get married, that
Mamsell Agata only liked bachelors and was looking
out for another place. They were all very
interested and wanted to see her. That settled it,
they never wanted to see her again if they could
help it. To describe what she looked like is
beyond me. She had thin golden locks arranged
in a sort of early Victorian fashion—Rosalie said
it was a wig but I do not know. An
exceptionally high and narrow forehead, no eyebrows,
small white eyes and hardly any face at all, only
a long hook nose overhanging a narrow slit which
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