"
She looked at it a while longer. "And I don't know," she concluded a
little reluctantly, "as it'll look so all-mighty foolish on her, either.
Will ten dollars a week suit you to begin on?"
"Yes," said Rose, "that will suit me very well indeed."
"All right," said Miss Gibbons. "That's settled. There's one more thing
to settle now, and that's where you're going to live."
Rose contemplated this question a little blankly for a moment.
"Do you suppose," she said, "there's any place in this town where I
_can_ live; where they'd take a person like me? Or would it be all
right, if you asked them?"
"Oh, I guess," said Miss Gibbons, "we could most likely find somebody.
I'll think about it."
She gave Rose some work to do and didn't refer to the matter again till
nearly six o'clock.
"I've been thinking," she said then, "that I've got room for a boarder
myself. There's a little room back here that I don't use; there's a
black girl does me out and cooks my dinner and supper, and I get my own
breakfast.
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