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Show "Good evening," said tho elderly woman, approaching tho stops, "I soo you nro enjoying the fresh air. It's a luxury to be able to sit outsldo again, Isn't It?" "It Is pleasant," snld tho woman who vvns sitting on the front stops. "I don't bellovo you know mo. I'm Mrs. Baxter your neighbor two doors off. No, don't get up. I'll Just sit down here hesldo you. Don't any n word now. I've been Intending to call over since you moved In, but you know how It Is. Thero's nlvvays something. And when I miw you como out and sit down I sold to my husband, 'I'm Just going to run over right now. If sho thinks I'm Informnl I don't mind, bo-causo bo-causo 1 am Informnl I nlvvays was.' And ho Just laughed and told mo to go ahead. Ho Bays ho thinks ho mot your husband some years npo. How-do How-do you HUo your homo? You needn't toll mo, though, for 1 hardly supposo you'vo got used to It yet and It's bo discouraging getting Bottled, nnd then I saw Mrs. Thomas, your noxt-door neighbor on tho other side, a day or two ago, and sho tells mo that you'vo been having awful troublo getting n servant. You needn't say anything. I know Just exactly what It "is. I don't know what tho girls aro coming to. Thoy don't seem to want to work, and they'ro most of them worthless when you do got ono. l'vo had more " Tho other woman had twlco mado a movement ns It to rlso, but had boon provented by tho dotninlng hand of tho Informnl caller. This tlino, however, bho got up. "If you'ro wnntln' to seo Mrs. Gos-sngo Gos-sngo you'll havo to cnll again, for sho's Bono to tho thoayter an' won't ho Jinck till lato," sho said with cold dignity. "I ain't Mrs. Gossngo myself. I'm tho cook." |
