I had no idea then that we shouldn't always
have servants, and if we'd stayed here, we never should have known
anything about housekeeping. And the worst of it is, I like it. I
always knew I had plebeian tastes and, now I am used to it, I
fairly revel in washing dishes."
"I'm not half so homesick for the old house as I thought I should
be," said Jessie, while she meditatively folded a series of tucks
in her gingham apron. "It was dreadful at first, having to leave
the old place and the servants and the furniture; but, after all,
we haven't had such a bad time. I don't know as I want to do
housework for a living, I prefer medicine; but I don't mind it a
bit, for a while. If I'm to keep old maid's hall, I want to know
how to do it."
"Yes; but we can't go on like this much longer, Jessie," her
sister replied. "I was talking about it to mamma, only a few days
ago. We must try to get a young girl to help about the house, for
it is settled that you are to go back into school after
Christmas."
"' Sufficient unto the day,'" said Jessie, laughing. "You know I'd
much rather stay at home and help you than go back to school. Why
must I go, any more than you?"
"I was supposed to be finished last year, ready to come out,"
answered Katharine; "and so I ought to be finished enough to stay
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