All the machinery of living, and no _living_--no good of it all! Yet there didn't seem to be anything else to do.

Now you have waked me all up--your paper this afternoon--what Mr.Eltwood said--the way those poor, dull, blind women took it.

And yet I was just as dull and blind myself! Well, I begin to see things now.

I can't tell you all at once what a difference it has made; but I have a very definite proposition to make to you.

Will you come and be my housekeeper, now--right away--at a hundred dollars a month ?" Diantha opened her eyes wide and looked at the eager lady as if she suspected her nervous balance.
"The other one got a thousand a year--you are worth more.