n in the kitchen. You
don't have to go right into the kitchen once in a week if you don't
want to. But it's a good thing to keep an eye on Aunt Lucy or the best
of them. They 're likely to hand out half of the provisions to the
rest of the niggers. You see it's fixed so that it don't make any
difference whether it's rainy or hot, or whether you 've got company
clothes on or not. You can set right here with your knitting and see
into the kitchen or out to the road--but people going past on the road
can't see you."

"It is an outside kitchen without the disadvantages of a separate
building, is n't it! And it looks like a part of the house, too."

"So does the milk-house. When you come out of the side door of the
dining-room the milkhouse is right in front of you. And to your right
is the kitchen door. Everything 's handy. Old Steve used to be a
great hand for company. And I guess Steve B. is likely to turn out
just as bad. So you see these are all three joined at the corners and
this place between is all floored and roofed over, and there is a
lattice and vines where you can see out onto the road. And it's nice
and cool. You can set right here in the shade and tend to everything."

Having submitted the plans to her contemplation awhile Jonas withdrew
the slicker as if he were considering any possible improvements.

Janet, being tired by her constrained position in viewing the
work,--for she had not moved entirely round to his side of the
supper,--straightened up and spent the interval in a new survey of the
stars. It rested her neck. As on the previous nights it was clear and
spacious. There were stars and stars. The biggest and brightest stood
out in unison; in between them and hanging far off in space were so
many others that all confusion seemed straightened out in the unity of
the infinite. It was all very beautiful--heaven is not disorder, after
all. And yet a coyote, complaining in the distance, seemed to set the
world to a false note. Her mind seemed tangled in light as her eye,
following the stars, was led along the devious invisible lines from one
to another. She had a feeling as if she would like to look up the
definition of "you" in the dictionary.

When she came back to earth again, Jonas was sitting there awaiting her
return. One would almost think he was waiting for an answer.

Janet looked at her watch. It was twenty minutes after ten--but she
did not know whether it was right