CHAPTER XX.
THE TEABERRY GOWN IS TOO LARGE When Dora Bannister had gone away in Miss Panney's phaeton, Miriam walked gravely into the house, followed by her brother.
"Now," said she, "I must go to work in earnest." "Work!" exclaimed Ralph.

"I think you have been working a good deal harder than you ought to work, and certainly a good deal harder than I intend you to work.

As soon as he has had his dinner, Mike shall take the wagon, and go after the woman Miss Panney told us of." "Of course I have been working," said Miriam, "but while Dora Bannister was here, what we did was not like straightforward work; it all seemed to mean something that was not just plain housekeeping.

For one thing, the dough I intended to bake into bread was nearly all used up in making those rolls that Dora worked up into such pretty shapes; and now, if the new woman comes, I shall not have another chance to try my hand at making bread until she leaves us, for I am not going to do anything of the sort with a servant watching me.

And there are all those raspberries we picked this morning.