Since we are
having--no, I mustn't say guests--since John and Eileen have come
home, I'll have to give up that plan until after dinner, and then
we'll go and take counsel with our souls and see if we can figure
out how we are going to solve this equation; and if you don t
know what an equation is, old dear heart, it's me with a war-club
and you with a shillalah and Eileen between us, and be 'damned'
to us if we can't make an average, ordinary, decent human being
out of her. Pin an apron on her in the morning, Katy, and hand
her a dust cloth and tell her to industrialize. We will help her
with her trousseau, but she SHALL help us with the work."
"Ye know, lambie," whispered Katy suddenly, "this is a burnin'
shame. The one thing I DIDN'T think about is that book of yours.
What about it?"
"I scarcely know," said Linda; "it's difficult to say. Of course
we can't carry out the plans we had made to work here, exactly as
we had intended, with Eileen in the house preparing to be
married. But she tells me that her uncle has made her a generous
allowance, so probably it's environment and love she is needing
much more than help. It is barely possible, Katy, that after I
have watched her a few days, if I decide she is in genuine,
sincere, heart-whole earnest, I might introduce her and John to
my friend, 'Jane.' It is probable that if I did, Eileen would not
expect me to help her, and at the same time she wouldn't feel
that I was acting indifferently because I did not.
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