So it was decided between them that Emma Smith was to settle down amongst them, and Huldah must leave Mrs.
Perry and go to live with her.

No lodgings could be found for her, for in that village the houses were not big enough to hold in comfort even the families that lived in them, and there was certainly no room for a lodger.

And houses were as scarce as lodgings.
At last a brilliant idea came to Miss Carew, and with her father's permission she hurried off with the good news.
"You shall have the two rooms over our coach-house," she cried, delightedly, for it was a real relief to her to feel that Huldah would be so near her, and under her own eye.

"They are a good size, and dry and airy; and we must all pull together to get what furniture we can." Huldah's face grew brighter and brighter with every word Miss Rose uttered, for she had begun to fear that they would have to go elsewhere.
To be near Miss Rose, too, would help to make up for the pain of leaving Aunt Martha and Dick and the cottage, a parting which had been weighing on her more heavily than she would have liked anyone to know.

Dick, it was decided, was to remain with Mrs.Perry, for without him she declared she could not live on in the cottage when Huldah was gone.
As soon as the rooms had been cleaned and papered, the furnishing began, and that was really rather fun.