I guess if the house is good enough for you and father it is good enough for her.' 'That's just it, Marietta--that's just what came over me! _Is_ what's good enough for us good enough for Lydia?
Won't anything, even the best, in Endbury be a come-down for her ?' The attainments of Mrs.Emery both as to wealth and social position, however, were not reached by her daughter Marietta and her husband, but in the determination to make it appear as if they were, Marietta thus exposes her own life of worry in a talk with her father: 'Keeping up a two-maid and a man establishment on a one-maid income, and mostly not being able to hire the one maid.

There aren't _any_ girls to be had lately.

It means that I have to be the other maid and the man all of the time, and all three, part of the time.' She was starting down the step, but paused as though she could not resist the relief that came from expression.

'And the cost of living--the necessities are bad enough, but the other things--the things you have to have not to be out of everything! I lie awake nights.

I think of it in church.