Other troubles and developments could be handled as they arose, should any such arise.

But a place to hide, to sleep, had to be secured within the hour.

Also they needed two or three days in which to think matters over calmly, and to apply to them clear reason.
And they had only the fifteen dollars in Matilda's black bag.
"It seems to me, ma'am," ventured Matilda, "that a rooming-house or a boarding-house would be cheapest." "A boarding-house!" exclaimed Mrs.De Peyster.

"But where ?" Matilda remembered and reached into her slit pocket.

"Yesterday I happened to pick up the card of a boarding-house in the library--I've no idea how it came there.