"I thought she agreed to come for ten dollars a week." "So she did." "She has not been here ten weeks; only about six." "That is true, but she has richly earned all I gave her." "Ten dollars a week I consider very handsome remuneration to one in her position in life," said Mrs.Preston, pointedly.
"Lucinda, but for her attention I probably should not have lived through this sickness.

Do you think a hundred dollars so much to pay for your husband's life ?" "You exaggerate the value of her services," said his wife.
"Dr.Townley says the same thing that I do." "You are both infatuated with that woman," said Mrs.Preston, impatiently.
"We only do her justice." "Oh, well, have it your own way.

But I should have only paid her what I agreed to.

It is a great windfall for her." "She deserves it." Mrs.Preston said no more at this time, for she found her husband too "infatuated," as she termed it, to agree with her.

She did, however, open the subject to Godfrey when he came home, and he adopted her view of the case.
"She and her low son are trying to get all they can out of father," he said.