Her heart was heavy as lead, and she felt a dull sense of injury as well.

This hut her home!--to which she had so freely invited sister and friend! She would be ashamed for them ever to set eyes on it.

Not in her worst dreams had she imagined it as mean and poor as this.

But perhaps ....

With the lamp in her hand, she tip-toed guiltily to a door in the wall: it opened into a tiny bedroom with a sloping roof.