LADIES-IN-WAITING
for an attack of tonsillitis, the result of overwork, and still saved two hundred dollars. The season was over. She was fagged, but not disheartened. Who is at twenty-two? But it was late April, and drawing-room entertainments were no more. The two hundred dollars when augmented by the church salary would barely take her through till October.
“It is very annoying,” thought Tommy, “when you have to eat, drink, sleep, and dress twelve months in the year, that the income by which you do these things should cease abruptly for four months. Still, furriers can’t sell furs in hot weather, and summer boarders can’t board in winter, so I suppose other people have to make enough money in eight months to spend in twelve.”
“‘Hark, hark, the lark at Heaven’s gate sings,
And Phœbus ’gins to rise!’”
she caroled, splashing about in her morning tub as she finished making these reflections, the tub being an excellent place for trills and scales.
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