But there was no rest for me, even then; I had to be back at the hall after tea and check up part of the house.

And then all I had to do was what I had at first fondly supposed I had been engaged to do--sing my songs! I sang six songs regularly every night, and if the audience was good to me and liberal in its applause I threw in two or three encores.
I had never been so happy in my life.

I had always been a great yin for the open air and the sunshine, and here, for years, I had spent all my days underground.

I welcomed the work that went with the engagement, for it kept me much out of doors, and even when I was busy in the halls, it was no so bad--I could see the sunlight through the windows, at any rate.

And then I could lie abed in the morning! I had been used so long to early rising that I woke up each day at five o'clock, no matter how late I'd gone to bed the nicht before.