I suppose it ought to be done that way--but I never had one before." "She keeps mighty fresh and bright-looking after these herculean labors." "Yes, but then she rests! Her ten hours are from six-thirty a.m., when she goes into the kitchen as regularly as a cuckoo clock, to eight-thirty p.m.when she is all through and her kitchen looks like a--well it's as clean and orderly as if no one was ever in it." "Ten hours--that's fourteen." "I know it, but she takes out four.

She claims time to eat her meals." "Preposterous!" "Half an hour apiece, and half an hour in the morning to rest--and two in the afternoon.

Anyway she is out, two hours every afternoon, riding in the electric cars!" "That don't look like a very hard job.

Her day laborer doesn't get two hours off every afternoon to take excursions into the country!" "No, I know that, but he doesn't begin so early, nor stop so late.

She does her square ten hours work, and I suppose one has a right to time off." "You seem dubious about that, my dear." "Yes, that's just where it's awkward.