CHAPTER XVII.
THE SUN SETS, AND THE NIGHT COMES ON.
Having recorded the steps by which Katy had carried forward her now flourishing trade, from the dawn of the idea up to the height of its prosperity, we may pass over a year with only a brief note of its principal incidents.
My young readers may have supposed that Katy and her mother had gathered a great deal of money in the candy trade.

It was not so, for as the business increased, and Katy's labors as a saleswoman were withdrawn, the expenses increased, and the profits were proportionally less.

And then, neither Mrs.Redburn nor her daughter had a faculty for saving up much money; so that, though they made considerable, their prosperity permitted new demands to be made upon the purse.

They hired two more rooms; they replaced the clothing and furniture which had been sacrificed under the pressure of actual want, and they lived better than they had lived before; and Mrs.Redburn had availed herself of the services of a distinguished physician, whose attendance had cost a large sum.

It is true they lived very well, much better than people in their circumstances ought to have lived.