They kep' a wood fire here in May most all the time, so I know." Clover thought the matter over for a day or two, consulted with Dr.Hope, and finally decided to try the experiment.No.13 was taken, and Mrs.
Kenny engaged for two days' work each week, with such other occasional assistance as Clover might require.

She was a widow, it seemed, with one son, who, being employed on the railroad, only came home for the nights.
She was glad of a regular engagement, and proved an excellent stand-by and a great help to Clover, to whom she had taken a fancy from the start; and many were the good turns which she did for love rather than hire for "my little Miss," as she called her.
To Phil the plan seemed altogether delightful.

This was natural, as all the fun fell to his share and none of the trouble; a fact of which Mrs.
Hope occasionally reminded him.

Clover persisted, however, that it was all fair, and that she got lots of fun out of it too, and didn't mind the trouble.

The house was so absurdly small that it seemed to strike every one as a good joke; and Clover's friends set themselves to help in the preparations, as if the establishment in Piute Street were a kind of baby-house about which they could amuse themselves at will.
It is a temptation always to make a house pretty, but Clover felt herself on honor to spend no more than was necessary.