CHAPTER III.
IN due time, Mrs.Darlington removed to a house in Arch Street, the annual rent of which was six hundred dollars, and there began her experiment.

The expense of a removal, and the cost of the additional chamber furniture required, exhausted about two hundred dollars of the widow's slender stock of money, and caused her, to feel a little troubled when she noticed the diminution.
She began her new business with two boarders, a gentleman and his wife by the name of Grimes, who had entered her house on the recommendation of a friend.

They were to pay her the sum of eight dollars a week.

A young man named Barling, clerk in a wholesale Market Street house, came next; and he introduced, soon after, a friend of his, a clerk in the same store, named Mason.

They were room-mates, and paid three dollars and a half each.