"I go to see her in her shop every now and then, and I reckon she values my advice about her affairs as much as anybody's.

Well, when she came home from Europe she found that she owned a row of tenements like this one, and her agent was profiteering in rents like most of the others.

I wish you could have seen her when she discovered it.

Splendid?
Well, I reckon she's the most splendid thing this old world has ever had on top of it! She went straight to work and had those houses made into modern apartments--bathrooms, steam heat, and back yards full of trees and grass and flowers, just like Monroe Park, only better.

The rent wasn't raised either! She put that back just where it was before the war; and then she let the whole row to the tenants for two years.