CHAPTER VI.
Mrs.Maxwell had invited Mrs.Field and Lois to take tea with her the next afternoon, and had hinted there might be other company.

"There's a good many I should like to ask," she had said, "but I ain't situated so I can jest now, an' it's a dreadful puzzle to know who to leave out without offendin' them.

I'm goin' to have the minister an' his wife anyhow, an' Lawyer Tuxbury an' his sister.

I should ask Flora, but if she comes the children have got to, an' I can't have them anyhow; they're the worst-actin' young ones at the table I ever saw in my life.

There's two or three men I'm goin' to ask.