Besides that, who is there that wants to see you ?" Rose didn't know.

She was sure there was somebody, and when Mrs.
Howland came up with one of the nicest little suppers on a small tea-tray, how was she shocked to find the window covered with her best blankets, which were safely packed away in the closet adjoining.
"Rose was afraid somebody would look in and see her," said Jenny, as she read her grandmother's astonishment in her face.
"Look in and see her!" repeated Mrs.Howland.

"I've undressed without curtains there forty years, and I'll be bound nobody ever peeked at me.

But come," she added, "set up, and see if you can't eat a mouthful or so.

Here's some broiled chicken, a slice of toast, some currant jelly that I made myself, and the swimminest cup of black tea you ever see.