27/47 Anybody could order and manage when it was all set down for her. And you see--as you have figured it--they'd have over $500 leeway to buy the furniture if they were allowed to." "Yes," Mrs.Bell admitted, "_if_ the rent was what you allow, and _if_ they all work all the time!" "That's the hitch, of course. But mother; the girls who don't have steady jobs do work by the hour, and that brings in more, on the whole. If they find anyone who don't keep her job--for good reasons--they can drop her." "M'm!" said Mrs.Bell. "Well, it's an interesting experiment. |