I'm sure I hope not! Anyway--it's new life to have that girl in the house." That girl had undertaken what she described to Ross as "a large order--a very large order." "It's the hardest thing I ever undertook," she wrote him, "but I think I can do it; and it will be a tremendous help.

Mrs.Weatherstone's a brick--a perfect brick! She seems to have been very unhappy--for ever so long--and to have submitted to her domineering old mother-in-law just because she didn't care enough to resist.

Now she's got waked up all of a sudden--she says it was my paper at the club--more likely my awful example, I think! and she fired her old housekeeper--I don't know what for--and rushed me in.
"So here I am.

The salary is good, the work is excellent training, and I guess I can hold the place.

But the old lady is a terror, and the young man--how you would despise that Johnny!" The home letters she now received were rather amusing.