But this time she had friends, and she determined to use them, as all true friends wish to be used in the day of sorrow and trial.

After considerable debate with herself, she decided to apply to Mrs.Gordon for a loan of twenty dollars.

She was still poor and proud, and she could not endure the thought of asking a loan, which might be regarded as a gift, or which, by her own inability to pay it, might virtually become such; therefore she proposed to present her father's silver watch as security for the payment of the debt..