“Thursday, I believe. I have her telephone number and am to call her up as soon as the question is decided.”
“Then we’ll call it decided,” replied Joanne, “and you can go right now and call her up, then that will all be settled.”
Dr. Selden hesitated a moment, then he went off to the telephone.
“There is not a bit of sense in getting in an incompetent woman who would be more bother than she was worth,” declared Joanne when her grandfather returned. “What are a few days more or less if you get the right one in the end? What about a housemaid, Grad?”
“The woman I have just engaged knows of one we can get.”
“So much the more should we wait, then. Don’t you think so?”
“I think you are growing a wise old head on very young shoulders.”
Joanne laughed and her grandfather went on up-stairs leaving the girls to scurry around and make ready to serve the dinner.
CHAPTER XV
A GARDEN PARTY
ALL was serene in the house of Selden by the end of another week. The new maids proved to be more than ordinarily acceptable, Mrs. Selden was herself again and Joanne was hard at work in school. The first rally of Sunflower Troop found an enthusiastic set of girls ready for any undertaking which might be suggested.