There was not a lazy bone in her energetic body.

She was up and stirring each morning at five o'clock and she evinced an eager willingness to learn that pleased Mrs.Barnes greatly.

Her knowledge of cookery was limited, and deadly, but as Thankful had planned to do most of the cooking herself, for the first season at least, this made little difference.

Altogether the proprietress of the High Cliff House was growing more and more sure that her female "hired help" was destined to prove a treasure.
"I am real glad you like it here so well, Imogene," she said, at the end of a fortnight.

"I was afraid you might be lonesome, down here so far from the city." Imogene laughed.