“How much time would you expect me to give?”
“Three hours daily—from nine to twelve.”
“I hardly know what to say. What did you expect to pay?”
“About fifty cents an hour.”
Florence knew very well, from the sums that had been paid for her own education, that this was miserably small pay; but it was much more than she could earn by sewing.
“I will teach a month on those terms,” she said, after a pause.
Mrs. Leighton looked well pleased. She knew that she was making a great bargain.
“Oh, by the way,” she said, “can you give references?”
“I can refer you to Madam Morrison,” naming the head of a celebrated female seminary. “She educated me.”
“That will be quite satisfactory,” said Mrs. Leighton, graciously. “Can you begin to-morrow?”