"So—" said Drusilla. "What do you know about the poor?"
"Oh, I know a lot, Miss Doane. I am one of the volunteer workers in a Settlement house in the slums."
"What's that? I seem to disremember what I have read about such things, if I have ever read about them."
"A Settlement is a lot of nice people who go down to live among the poor, and they have clubs where the boys and girls can come evenings, and they have sometimes a kindergarten or a day nursery where the mothers who go out to work by the day can leave their children while they are away, and they give free baths and have a medical clinic. Dr. Eaton gives his services to one twice a week, and there is a district nurse, and—Oh lots of things are done for the poor in the neighborhood of the Settlement house."
Drusilla put down her trowel and looked interested.
"Do tell! How nice of 'em. Are they paid to do it?"
"Yes; the workers who live in the Settlement get a salary. But girls like myself give a day a week, or every once in a while go there and help."
"What do you do?" asked Drusilla.
"I—I—teach sewing. I have a class."
Drusilla looked at her a moment in astonishment.