They arrived at the Settlement house and Mrs. Harris ordered tea to be brought to her sitting-room. She was delighted at the effect of her visit, and her imagination ran riot in the thought of the additions that might be made to the summer home for mothers.
Drusilla was quiet during tea, but when it was carried away she spoke.
"Now tell me about your home. You say you want to make an addition, add an ell or something."
"Yes; we think by adding a wing we can double our capacity. But I have the plans of the new work, and a picture and plans of the present house."
She brought a book of views with an architect's drawings of the new hoped-for wing, and the pictures and plans of the present house. Drusilla drew her glasses from her bag and bent over the new plans; then she turned her attention to the house now in use.
"You say this is where they are at present? Which is the rooms you use for the mothers?"
The worker pointed them out.
"We have six beds in this room, and four beds in this, and five beds in this room. In this long room we can put about twelve cots for the children that do not have to be with their mothers during the night. This is the dining-room; this the living-room."
Drusilla caught sight of some rooms upstairs.
"What's these three rooms. Who're they for?"