If there was enough left, she would have another real hat.

Then for the remainder of the year she would spend only for the barest necessities and save to help toward a home something like Nancy Ellen's.

Whenever she thought of Nancy Ellen and Robert there was a choking sensation in her throat, a dull ache where she had been taught her heart was located.
For two weeks everything went as well as Kate hoped: then Mrs.Holt began to show the results of having been partially bottled up, for the first time in her life.

She was careful to keep to generalities which she could claim meant nothing, if anything she said was taken up by either George or Kate.

George was too lazy to quarrel unless he was personally angered; Kate thought best to ignore anything that did not come in the nature of a direct attack.