"We have not got the common person to do it," said Lois, laughing; "so it comes upon an uncommon one."
"But there is a fitness in things."
"So you will think, when you get some of my young lettuce." The drills were fast covered in, but there were a good many of them, and Lois went on talking and working with equal spirit.
"I do not think I shall—" Mrs. Barclay answered the last statement.
"I like to do this, Mrs. Barclay. I like to do it very much. I am pulled a little two ways this spring—but that only shows this is good for me."
"How so?"
"When anybody is living to his own pleasure, I guess he is not in the best way of improvement."
"Is there no one but you to do all the weeding, by and by, when the garden will be full of plants?"
"Nobody else," said Lois.
"That must take a great deal of your time!"