She did not herself feel so sanguine of making it up.

Still, she had not entered into any calculation of income and expense, leaving that to her mother, and supposing that all was right as a matter of course.
As they continued to set an excellent table, they kept up pretty regularly their complement of boarders.

The end of the second year would have shown this result, if a calculation had been made: cash income, $1306--loss by boarders, $150--whole expenses, $2000.
Consequently, they were worse off at the end of the year by $694; or in the two years, $2188, by keeping boarders.
And now poor Mrs.Turner was startled on receiving her bank book from the bank, settled up, to find that her four thousand dollars had dwindled down to $1812.

She could not at first believe her senses.

But there were all her checks regularly entered; and, to dash even the hope that there was a mistake, there were the cancelled checks, also, bearing her own signature.
"Mary, what _shall_ we do ?" was her despairing question, as the full truth became distinct to her mind.
"You say we have sunk more than two thousand dollars in two years ?" "Yes, my child." "And have had all our hard labor for nothing ?" Mary continued, and her voice trembled as she thought of how much she had gone through in that time.
"Yes." "Something must be wrong, mother.