[The Woman-Haters by Joseph C. Lincoln]@TWC D-Link bookThe Woman-Haters CHAPTER X 20/52
"One of us better go somewheres else, if you ask me," he declared. "Run away again, you mean? Well, I sha'n't run away.
I'm Miss Ruth's housekeeper for the summer.
I answered her advertisement in the Boston paper and we agreed as to wages and so on.
I like her and she likes me. Course if I'd known my husband was in the neighborhood, I shouldn't have come here; but I didn't know it.
Now I'm here and I'll stay my time out. What are you goin' to do ?" "I'm goin' to send in my resignation as keeper of these lights.
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