"I need clothes, and have found that had I a proper place to work in and proper tools to work with, I could earn quite a bit with my brush and pencil, and so I am trying to get enough money together to fit up the billiard room for a workroom, since nobody uses it for anything else." "I see," said John Gilman.

"I suppose running a house is extremely expensive these days, but even so the income from your estate should be sufficient to dress a schoolgirl and provide for anything you would want in the way of furnishing a workroom." "That's what I have always thought myself," said Linda; "but Eileen doesn't agree with me, and she handles the money.

When the first of the month comes, we are planning to go over things together, and she is going to make me a proper allowance." "That is exactly as it should be," said Gilman.

"I never realized till the other night at dinner that you have grown such a great girl, Linda.
That's fine! Fix your workroom the way you would like to have it, and if there's anything I can do to help you in any way, you have only to command me.

I haven't seen you often lately." "No," said Linda, "but I don't feel that it is exactly my fault.