"
"O, a thousand things would crop up; we never could be idle; and so she
thought we'd better have a responsible woman as housekeeper. What's
more she said she'd pay her."
"It wouldn't be polite for me to say about a lady what you said about
Mr. Watkins," said James--
"For which I apologize," declared Roger parenthetically.
"--but I'd like to remark that she's one of the most reliable
grandmothers I ever had anything to do with!"
They all laughed again.
"Where we'll get these two women I don't know," said Roger. "My
researches stopped there. But I suppose it wouldn't be difficult."
"I've heard Mother say that the 'responsible woman' was the hardest
person on earth to find," said Helen, thoughtfully. "But we can all
hunt."
"I know some one who might do if she'd be willing--and I don't know why
she wouldn't," said Ethel Brown.
"Who? Who? Some one in Rosemont?"
"Right here in Rosemont. Mrs. Schuler."
"Mrs. Schuler?"
There was a cry of wonder, for Mrs. Schuler was the teacher of German
in the high school. She had been engaged to Mr. Schuler, who taught
singing in the Rosemont schools, before the war broke out.
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