She may stay with you longer than you anticipate.

It is too expensive living here, as she would expect to live.

Nothing but Fifth Avenue Hotel would suit her, and I cannot ask her for funds at once.

I'd rather come to it gradually." And this it was which so disturbed Mrs.Richards' peace of mind.

She could not go to Kentucky, and she might as well have saved the money she had expended in getting her black silk velvet dress fixed for the occasion, while, worst of all, she must have John's wife there for months, perhaps, whether she liked it or not, and she must also fit up the rooms with paper and paint and carpets, notwithstanding that she'd nothing to do it with, unless Anna generously gave the necessary sum from her own yearly income.