It took a woman; and she was going to see what she could do," she said to Mrs.Van Buren, who was up at the homestead for a few days, and who looked aghast at her sister's proposition, that she should accompany her, and help her hunt up Ethie.
"Was Barbara crazy, that she thought of going to New York in this hot weather, when the smallpox, and the dysentery, and the plague, and mercy knew what was there?
Besides that, how did Barbara intend to manage?
What was she going to do ?" Barbara hardly knew herself how she should manage, or what she should do.

"Providence would direct," she said, though to be sure she had an idea.

Ethie had written that she had found employment, and what was more probable than to suppose that the employment was giving music lessons, for which she was well qualified, or teaching in some gentleman's family.

Taking this as her basis, Aunt Barbara intended to inquire for every governess and teacher in the city, besides watching every house where such an appendage would be likely to be found.

Still her great hope was in the street and the Park.