Carr. "Of course we shall have to get somebody to come and take
charge. But it isn't easy to find just the right person. Mrs. Hall knows
of a woman who might do, but she is out West, just now, and it will be a
week or two before we can hear from her. Do you think you can get on as
you are for a few days?"
"Oh, Papa!" cried Katy, in dismay, "must we have anybody?"
"Why, how did you suppose we were going to arrange it? Clover is much
too young for a housekeeper. And beside, she is at school all day."
"I don't know--I hadn't thought about it," said Katy, in a
perplexed tone.
But she did think about it--all that evening, and the first thing when
she woke in the morning.
"Papa," she said, the next time she got him to herself, "I've been
thinking over what you were saying last night, about getting somebody to
keep the house, you know. And I wish you wouldn't. I wish you would let
_me_ try. Really and truly, I think I could manage."
"But how?" asked Dr. Carr, much surprised. "I really don't see. If you
were well and strong, perhaps--but even then you would be pretty young
for such a charge, Katy."
"I shall be fourteen in two weeks," said Katy, drawing herself up in her
chair as straight as she could.
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