"Nobody to do anything, I mean."
"Can't they do anything? I don't know what you are talking of, Matilda; but I know I want my dinner."
"Who do you think will get dinner to-morrow?"
"Well—mother's sick of course; and Anne and Letty are going. I should think Aunt Candy might."
"No, she won't."
"How do you know?"
"Because mother said so. She won't do anything."
"Then she'll have to get a girl to do things, I suppose."
"But Maria, that is just what mother wants she shouldn't do; because she'd have to pay for it."
"Who would have to pay for it?"