Her boarders
were nice men but she knew they did not have much money, and then she
could not raise on those who had been with her and she could not ask
the new ones to pay higher, when those who were already there were
paying just what they had paid before. So Anna let it go just as she
had begun it. She worked and worked all day and thought all night how
she could save, and with all the work she just managed to keep living.
She could not make enough to lay any money by.
Anna got so little money that she had all the work to do herself. She
could not pay even the little Sally enough to keep her with her.
Not having little Sally nor having any one else working with her, made
it very hard for Anna ever to go out, for she never thought that
it was right to leave a house all empty. Once in a great while of a
Sunday, Sally who was now working in a factory would come and stay
in the house for the good Anna, who would then go out and spend the
afternoon with Mrs. Drehten.
No, Anna did not see her old friends much any more. She went sometimes
to see her half brother and his wife and her nieces, and they always
came to her on her birthdays to give presents, and her half brother
never left her out of his festive raisined bread giving progresses.
But these relatives of hers had never meant very much to the good
Anna. Anna always did her duty by them all, and she liked her half
brother very well and the loaves of raisined bread that he supplied
her were most welcome now, and Anna always gave her god daughter and
her sister handsome presents, but no one in this family had ever made
a way inside to Anna's feelings.
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