I've got the house full of lodgers, and I can tell you it takes me all my time, and more, to look after them.

I never get any pleasure, and your father never gets any work, and he thinks that is just as it should be." Jessie stood for a moment looking very thoughtful.

Everything in this house seemed to her wrong.

Just as it all used to be in her old home before she went to her grandfather's; but she knew nothing better then, she was too young.

Now she was older and better able to understand, for she had had a long and happy experience of what a home could and should be, where each did a share, and thought always of others first.