A BUSINESS PROPOSITION MID-AUGUST saw them on their way to Chicago.

Kate had taken care of Mrs.Jardine a few days while Jennie Weeks went home to see her mother and arrange for her new work.

She had no intention of going back to school teaching.

She preferred to brush Mrs.Jardine's hair, button her shoes, write her letters, and read to her.
In a month, Jennie had grown so deft at her work and made herself so appreciated, that she was practically indispensable to the elderly woman, and therefore the greatest comfort to John.

Immediately he saw that his mother was properly cared for, sympathetically and even lovingly, he made it his business to smooth Jennie's path in every way possible.