If these rules were observed for a year, she made out on a sheet of paper that the completion of the book was certain, and she laid her scheme before her mother with a feeling that much of the task was already accomplished.
Mrs.Hilbery examined the sheet of paper very carefully.

Then she clapped her hands and exclaimed enthusiastically: "Well done, Katharine! What a wonderful head for business you've got! Now I shall keep this before me, and every day I shall make a little mark in my pocketbook, and on the last day of all--let me think, what shall we do to celebrate the last day of all?
If it weren't the winter we could take a jaunt to Italy.

They say Switzerland's very lovely in the snow, except for the cold.

But, as you say, the great thing is to finish the book.

Now let me see--" When they inspected her manuscripts, which Katharine had put in order, they found a state of things well calculated to dash their spirits, if they had not just resolved on reform.