By embroidery-work I can easily make nine shillings more to put to that, and there is a fifth week provided for.

Surely, in five weeks' time--considering the number of things I can turn my hand to--we may hit on some plan for getting a little money.

This is what I am always telling my husband, and what, by dint of constantly repeating it, I am getting to believe myself.
William, as is but natural, poor fellow, does not take so lighthearted view of the future as I do.

He says that the prospect of sitting idle and being kept by his wife for months to come, is something more wretched and hopeless than words can describe.

I try to raise his spirits by reminding him of his years of honest hard work for me and the children, and of the doctor's assurance that his eyes will get the better, in good time, of their present helpless state.