Mary. To-night, if you wish; my week is out at my boarding-place, and I shouldn’t care to commence another.
Mrs. Mervin. Very well, you can come, then, and I will give you three dollars a week. Will that be satisfactory?
Mary. Quite so: that is more than I clear some weeks now; and it will be such a relief to have done with so much sewing. Good-morning, ma’am. I’ll be here about five o’clock.
[Exit Mary.
Emma. There, mother, see what has come by advertising in a respectable paper. I think you have secured a jewel,—so tidy and civil,—and I know by her looks she knows how to do every thing.
Mrs. Mervin. Yes, I am greatly pleased with her appearance; and how much more sensible in her to do housework than kill herself sewing in a shop! I hope the time will soon come when a great many more in her circumstances will go and do likewise.
Mrs. S. E. Dawes.