The Mayor's Wife

The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green is about a woman hired to be the mayor's wife's friend. However, there is something terribly wrong with what is worrying the mayor's wife. Excerpt: "I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position to offer, I could not hide all traces of my anxiety. I needed a position, needed it badly, while the others- But her eyes are on our faces, she is scanning us all with that close and calculating gaze which lets nothing escape."