[What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Diantha Did CHAPTER II 34/39
This account was as clear and honest as the first and full of exasperating detail.
She laid before him the second sheet of figures and watched while he read, explaining hurriedly: "It was a clear expense for ten years--not counting help with the babies.
Then I began to do housework regularly--when I was ten or eleven, two hours a day; three when I was twelve and thirteen--real work you'd have had to pay for, and I've only put it at ten cents an hour. When Mother was sick the year I was fourteen, and I did it all but the washing--all a servant would have done for $3.00 a week.
Ever since then I have done three hours a day outside of school, full grown work now, at twenty cents an hour.
That's what we have to pay here, you know." Thus it mounted up: Mr.Henderson R.Bell, To Miss Diantha Bell, Dr. For labor and services!!!!! Two years, two hours a day at 10c.
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