"Turn off the servants instead of the clerks." "No, only one of them, Martha upstairs--and she is to be married.

We'll keep the cook and the waitress.

Edith will have to give up her nurse--and it will be hard on her, of course--but she'll have to realize this is war," Deborah said sharply.

"Besides," she urged, "it's not going to last.
Business everywhere will pick up--in a few weeks or months at most.

The war _can't_ go on--it's too horribly big!" She broke off and anxiously looked at him.