"Everything in the world!"




Chapter Thirty-eight


Another silence. Then Nancy said briskly:

"Well! Listen to what I've planned, Bert, and tell me what you
think. Item one: this is vacation, but when it's over I want to
start Anne and the boys in at the village school. They can cut
right across the field at the back here, it's just a good walk for
them. They're frantic to go, instead of to Fraulein, and I'm
perfectly satisfied to have them!"

"Sure you are?" the man asked, a little touched, for this had been
a long-disputed point.

"Oh, quite! Just as you and I did. And then, item two: Agnes is a
good plain cook, and Priscilla is an angel. I'll walk to market
every day, and send out the laundry, and keep Priscilla with me.
So that makes Agnes our entire domestic staff--she's enthusiastic,
so don't begin to curl your lips over it. Then we'll have to have
a floor in here, and cut a window in the closet back there, and
put in a little gas stove, and before winter we'll put on a little
addition--a kitchen in back, with a room for the boys above. And
we'll shut the big double doors, and I'll have another window box
right across their windows, and curtain the whole place in plain