"No, Mother, I've had enough of that.

I've taught for four years.

I don't like it, I don't do well, and it exhausts me horribly.

And I should never get beyond a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars a year if I taught for a lifetime." "Well, I declare!" said her sister.

"What do you _expect_ to get?
I should think fifteen hundred dollars a year was enough for any woman!" Diantha peered into the oven and turned her biscuit pan around.
"And you're meaning to leave home just to make money, are you ?" "Why not ?" said Diantha firmly.