You are not going to work me one single time when I have got brains to see through your schemes after this.

Hereafter I take my place in my father's house and at my father's table on an equality with you." Eileen looked at Linda steadily, trying to see to the depths of her soul.

She saw enough to convince her that the young creature in front of her was in earnest.
"Hm," she said, "have I been so busy that I have failed to notice what a great girl you are getting ?" "Busy!" scoffed Linda.

"Tell that to Katy.

It's a kumquat!" "Perhaps you are too big," continued Eileen, "to be asked to wait on the table any more." "I certainly am," retorted Linda, "and I am also too big to wear such shoes or such a dress as I have on at the present min.ute.I know all about the war and the inflation of prices and the reduction in income, but I know also that if there is enough to run the house, and dress you, and furnish you such a suite of rooms as you're enjoying right now, there is enough to furnish me suitable clothes, a comfortable bedroom and a place where I can leave my work without putting away everything I am doing each time I step from the room.