But I am young and strong and have a great deal to do--I shall do it." And then Mrs.Weatherstone would tell her all she knew of the intense satisfaction of the people she served, and pleasant stories about the girls.

She bought her books to read and such gleanings as she found in foreign magazines on the subject of organized house-service.
Not only so, but she supplied the Orchardina library with a special bibliography on the subject, and induced the new Woman's Club to take up a course of reading in it, so that there gradually filtered into the Orchardina mind a faint perception that this was not the freak of an eccentric individual, but part of an inevitable business development, going on in various ways in many nations.
As the winter drew on, Mrs.Weatherstone whisked away again, but kept a warm current of interest in Diantha's life by many letters.
Mr.Bell came down from Jopalez with outer reluctance but inner satisfaction.

He had rented his place, and Susie had three babies now.
Henderson, Jr., had no place for him, and to do housework for himself was no part of Mr.Bell's plan.
In Diantha's hotel he had a comfortable room next his wife's, and a capacious chair in the firelit hall in wet weather, or on the shaded piazza in dry.

The excellent library was a resource to him; he found some congenial souls to talk with; and under the new stimulus succeeded at last in patenting a small device that really worked.

With this, and his rent, he felt inclined to establish a "home of his own," and the soul of Mrs.Bell sank within her.