This made a new sensation.

At other times the woman was employed to deliver milk and cream to a few favored customers.
Mrs.Staines dropped in now and then, and chatted with her.

Her sweet face and her naivete won Phoebe's heart; and one day, as happiness is apt to be communicative, she let out to her, in reply to a feeler or two as to whether she was quite alone, that she was engaged to be married to a gentleman.

"But he is not rich, ma'am," said Phoebe plaintively; "he has had trouble: obliged to work for his living, like me; he painted these pictures, EVERY ONE OF THEM.

If it was not making too free, and you could spare a guinea--he charges no more for the picture, only you must go to the expense of the frame." "Of course I will," said Rosa warmly.