CUPBOARD LOVE
In the comfortable living-room at Negget’s farm, half parlour and half kitchen, three people sat at tea in the waning light of a November afternoon. Conversation, which had been brisk, had languished somewhat, owing to Mrs. Negget glancing at frequent intervals toward the door, behind which she was convinced the servant was listening, and checking the finest periods and the most startling suggestions with a warning ‘ssh!
“Go on, uncle,” she said, after one of these interruptions.
“I forget where I was,” said Mr. Martin Bodfish, shortly.
“Under our bed,” Mr. Negget reminded him.
“Yes, watching,” said Mrs. Negget, eagerly.
It was an odd place for an ex-policeman, especially as a small legacy added to his pension had considerably improved his social position, but Mr. Bodfi
