Anyway she is out, two hours every afternoon, riding
in the electric cars!"
"That don't look like a very hard job. Her day laborer doesn't get two
hours off every afternoon to take excursions into the country!"
"No, I know that, but he doesn't begin so early, nor stop so late. She
does her square ten hours work, and I suppose one has a right to time
off."
"You seem dubious about that, my dear."
"Yes, that's just where it's awkward. I'm used to girls being in all
the time, excepting their day out. You see I can't leave baby, nor
always take him--and it interferes with my freedom afternoons."
"Well--can't you arrange with her somehow?"
"See if you can. She says she will only give ten hours of time for a
dollar and a half a day--tisn't but fifteen cents an hour--I have to pay
a woman twenty that comes in. And if she is to give up her chance of
sunlight and fresh air she wants me to pay her extra--by the hour. Or
she says, if I prefer, she would take four hours every other day--and so
be at home half the time. I said it was difficult to arrange--with
baby, and she was very sympathetic and nice, but she won't alter her
plans."
"Let her go, and get a less exacting servant."
"But--she does her work so well! And it saves a lot, really. She knows
all about marketing and things, and plans the meals so as to have things
lap, and it's a comfort to have her in the house and feel so safe and
sure everything will be done right.
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