And I love my baby--I'm no unfeeling monster! But I can tell you frankly that if I'd had any idea of what housework was like I'd never have given up architecture to try it." "Lucky for me you hadn't!" said he fondly.

"I know it's been hard for you, little girl.

I never meant that you should give up architecture--that's a business a woman could carry on at home I thought, the designing part anyway.

There's your 'drawing-room' and all your things--" "Yes," she said, with reminiscent bitterness, "there they are--and there they might have stayed, untouched--if Miss Bell hadn't come!" "Makes you call her "Miss Bell" all the time, does she ?" Mrs.Porne laughed.

"Yes.