"Your income consists only of what the two boys earn?"
"I earn something by sewing, but I have no sewing machine, and the prices paid are very low. Still, every little helps."
"If you had a whole house and kept lodgers, you could make a better income."
"No doubt, and I think I could do it if I had the means. But with no capital, that is out of the question," she finished, with a sigh.
"I have a proposal to make to you. I have a room in a house on West Sixteenth Street. It is a moderate sized house, and is to let furnished. My present landlady is desirous of giving up the house, as she wishes to be with her mother in the country, but she is tied by a lease. Suppose you take it off her hands?"
"I should like nothing better, but you can judge whether an offer from one so poor as myself would be accepted."
"Don't trouble yourself about that," said Seth Lawton, quietly. "I will arrange it all, and will retain my room. I may say that the rooms are all taken, so that you would be sure of an income at once."
"I should like the arrangement very much, and I should like especially to have you with me, Seth; but it seems like a dream."
"We will make it a reality. I will see Mrs. Field this evening, and call on you again to-morrow. When does your month here expire?"
"In three days."