"He

didn't

!" said Margaret. "And I

can't

take your money,

beautiful! And I don't see how we can possibly come to stay with you."

"Don't you argue with me!" Mrs. Haggage exhorted her. "I'm not in any

temper to be argued with. I've spent the morning sewing bias

stripes in a bias skirt--something which from a moral-ruining and

resolution-overthrowing standpoint simply knocks the spots off Job.