If she hadn't wanted you to stay right here for some very serious reason, Betty Jo, she would have taken you with her last night.

Auntie Sue very pointedly and definitely expects you to be here when she returns.

And she will be away several days,--several days, Betty Jo." She repeated the words in a whisper.
"And during those several days, you are to keep house for the man you love;--the man who loves you;--the man whom you must keep from telling you his love,--no matter how your heart pleads for him to tell you, you must not permit him to speak.

He will be coming in to breakfast in a few minutes, and you will sit down at the table with him,--across the table from him,--facing him,--Betty Jo,--just like--" She looked in the little mirror that hung beside the kitchen window, and, with dismay, saw her face flushed with color that was not caused by the heat of the stove.

"And you will be forced to look at him across the table, and he will look at you,--and--and you must not,--" she stamped her foot,--"you dare not look like THAT, Betty Jo.
"And then there will be the dinner that you will cook for him, and the supper; and the evenings on the porch.