"Well, first, are you really keeping that big house over there all alone by yourself?"
"I'm keeping house there, yes, but I'm not all alone by myself. My father's there, and two servants."
"Don't you keep a man?"
"No; a man comes every day to do the hard work, but he doesn't live with us."
"Humph, I suppose you think you're pretty smart, don't you?"
"I don't know," said Patty slowly, as if considering; "yes, I think I'm pretty smart in some ways, and in other ways I'm as stupid as an owl."
"Well, you must be pretty smart, because you haven't had to borrow anything over here yet."
"But I wouldn't borrow anything here, anyway, Miss Daggett; you specially asked me not to."
Miss Daggett's old wrinkled face broke into a smile.
"And so you remember that. Well, well, you are a nice little girl; you must have had a good mother, and a good bringing-up."