Where a little shack or tent was all they could afford to live in, or where the tiny cottage was more than filled with the patient, attending relative, and nurse, this depot of supplies was a relief indeed.
A girl could be had for an hour or two; or two girls, together, with amazing speed, could put a small house in dainty order while the sick man lay in his hammock under the pepper trees; and be gone before he was fretting for his bed again.

They lived upon her lunches; and from them, and other quarters, rose an increasing demand for regular cooked food.
"Why don't you go into it at once ?" urged Mrs.Weatherstone.
"I want to establish the day service first," said Diantha.

"It is a pretty big business I find, and I do get tired sometimes.

I can't afford to slip up, you know.

I mean to take it up next fall, though." "All right.