“You won’t be alone,” Mrs. Bobbsey said. “Dinah will be here to cook and look after you. Sam will shovel the snow, if any more falls, and he’ll look after the fires. You’ll be all right with Sam and Dinah.”
Sam Johnson was Dinah’s husband, and though he was not as fat as was she, he was quite as good-natured and jolly.
“Besides,” went on Mrs. Bobbsey, “I will ask a woman to come in to help you keep house, Nan.”
“Who, Mother?”
“I’ll send for Mrs. Pry.”
“Oh, Aunt Sallie!” exclaimed Bert.
“Yes, Aunt Sallie,” his mother answered. “She is a very good housekeeper and will look after you very well. She is a little deaf, it’s true, but if you speak a little louder than usual and quite plainly, she will hear you. Flossie and Freddie aren’t going to mind staying at home and keeping house while daddy and mother are gone, are you?” and she looked at the smaller twins.
“I like to keep house,” said blue-eyed Flossie. “I’ll help Nan wash the dishes.”
“I like Aunt Sallie,” said Freddie. “She makes nice cookies, and maybe she’ll tell us stories.”
“Oh, that’ll be fun!” cried Flossie.