But we'll make it fifty-fifty while we can.

I'm going to do my share." "I suppose we'd better do the laundry, too, don't you think ?" she added.

"We don't want the fire to get too low." They had used their single wash basin for their dish pan as well, and now it was impressed to yet another use.

Each girl found in her pocket a cheap handkerchief or so.

Annie now plunged these in the wash basin's scanty suds, washed them, and, going to the mirror, pasted them against the glass, flattening them out so that in the morning they might be "ironed," as she called it.