“Are you young people going in bathing?” asked Mrs. Hadley, at the conclusion of the meal.
“No, I’m not,” replied the girl, without raising her eyes from her plate. “I’m going to look for a job.”
“Oh, wait till Monday!” urged Mrs. Hadley. “Why don’t you and John amuse each other today?”
Miss Snyder shook her head decidedly.
“No,” she said, “I bought the paper, and I want to answer some ads in person.”
John saw that she had no intention of including him in any of her plans, so he decided to go his own way, just as if she were not present. He would look up some of the fellows and join their bathing party, and in the afternoon he would take his mother to the beach.
When he and his mother returned from their walk late in the afternoon, they found Miss Snyder in high good spirits. Her eyes were sparkling, and there was some color in her formerly pale cheeks. She had obtained a position.
She told them all she knew about it at supper.
“It’s only selling embroidery in a fancy-work shop on the boardwalk,” she explained; “but during my spare time I am to embroider, and I get paid extra for my work. I’m really awfully lucky!”
“I think they’re lucky!” cried John, with sincere admiration. The girl looked capable.