"If I were you, I should want to go to boarding-school. Where there is a crowd of girls they always manage to have a nice time."
"But I have nice times at home. I do not want to go away."
"What a queer girl you are, Kathie!"
It was not the first time she had been called queer. But she said, rather gayly, "In what respect?"
"I shouldn't like to do as you have to. Why, there are five servants in our house, and only one in this great place! And we have only four children, while your mother has three. It is hardly fair for you to be compelled to do so much work when there is no necessity."
"Mamma thinks it best," Kathie answered.
"If you expected to be very poor—or would have to do housework—"
"I might," returned Kathie, pleasantly. "People are sick sometimes, and servants go away."
"Isn't your uncle willing that you should have a chambermaid?"