Kitty let this pass with a private smile. "I got a letter from father at Silver landing this morning," she said. "It was posted as they were leaving Fort Edward. They are all back at Milburn Gulch by now."
"What will they do without you?"
"They have taken a man cook in with them."
"Are you going in later?" he asked.
She shook her head. "Dad says after all it's no country for a woman."
"What will you do?"
"I shall go to live with my aunt in Winnipeg, and study something, so that I can earn my own living. A teacher, perhaps."
"That's a lonely life!" said Ralph.
She looked away. "Better than being idle," she said.
"I must begin to think what I am going to do," said Ralph.