"And so you have to work the harder, Rose."
"Never mind, Addie; I am strong, and I enjoy working for you."
"But still I am so useless."
"You chase us up, and we can work all the better."
"I earn nothing. I wonder if I shall always be so weak and useless?"
"No. Don't you remember the doctor said you would in all probability outgrow your weakness and be as strong as I am? All that is needed is patience."
"Ah, it is not so easy to be always patient—when I think, too, of how differently we should have been situated if grandfather had treated us justly."
A shadow came over the face of Rose.
"Yes; I don't like to think of that. Why should he have left all his property to our cousin Philip and none to us?"