"We ought to do what we see to be right, mother, had we not?" Mary asked, looking affectionately into her mother's face.
"I suppose so, Mary."
"Won't it be right for us to reduce our expenses, and make the most of what we have left?"
"It certainly will, Mary."
"Then let us do what seems to be right, and we shall see further, I am sure, as soon as we have acted."
Thus urged, Mrs. Turner consented to relinquish her boarders, and to move into a small house, at a rent very considerably reduced.
Many articles of furniture they were obliged to dispose of, and this added to their little fund some five hundred dollars. About two months after they were fairly settled, Mary said to her mother—
"I've been thinking a good deal lately, mother, about getting into something that would bring us in a living."
"Well, child, what conclusion have you come to?"
"You don't like the idea of setting up a little store?"