"Won't that be perfectly lovely! I've always wanted one of my own.

And shall you have man-servants, and maid-servants?
Oh, Patty, you never could run a big establishment like that.

You'll have to have a housekeeper." "I'm going to try it," said Patty, laughing.

"It will be an experiment, and, of course, I shall make lots of blunders at first; but I think it's a pity if a girl nearly sixteen years old can't keep house for her own father." "So do I," said Laura.

"And, anyhow, if you get into any dilemmas we'll all come over and help you out." The girls laughed at this; for Laura Russell was a giddy little feather-head, and couldn't have kept house for ten minutes to save her life.
"Much good it would do Patty to have the Tea Club help her keep house," said Florence Douglass.