"Now what are you going to do?" he asked, when they had finished dinner and Wiseli rose from the table.
"I am going to wash the dishes," she replied.
"I suppose such things have to be done," said the joiner, "but I think, since this is your first day with me, that you might stack them up and do them to-morrow; you know there are only a few."
"Why, I should be so ashamed if Mrs. Ritter should happen to come in that I shouldn't know what to do," said Wiseli, and she turned such a serious face to him that he laughed.
"All right," he said; "only remember that you are to do just as you like while you are with me."
Wiseli had not thought that it could be so much fun to do up the dinner work. When it was finished, she said to herself, "Now this kitchen is nice enough for any one to inspect."
She had been told that the alcove opening off from the living room was to be hers, so she hung her few garments in the closet opening from one corner of the room. When she returned to the joiner's room he said, "Good, I have been waiting for you a long time."
"Haven't you a stocking that I could knit while I sit here?" she asked, as she took the chair beside the bed.
"Of course not," answered the sick man; "you have already done too much, and I want you to rest now."