said so, and she always had liked and
respected Mrs. Haydon, who always acted very proper to her, and Lena
was so backward, when there was a man to talk to, Mrs. Haydon did have
hard work when she tried to marry Lena. Mrs. Haydon was a good woman,
only she did talk sometimes too grand. Perhaps this trouble would
make her see it wasn't always so easy to do, to make everybody do
everything just like she wanted. The cook was very sorry now for Mrs.
Haydon. All this must be such a disappointment, and such a worry to
her, and she really had always been very good to Lena. But Lena had
better go and put on her other clothes and stop all that crying. That
wouldn't do nothing now to help her, and if Lena would be a good girl,
and just be real patient, her aunt would make it all come out right
yet for her. "I just tell Mrs. Aldrich, Lena, you stay here yet a
little longer. You know she is always so good to you, Lena, and I know
she let you, and I tell her all about that stupid Herman Kreder. I got
no patience, Lena, with anybody who can be so stupid. You just stop
now with your crying, Lena, and take off them good clothes and put
them away so you don't spoil them when you need them, and you can help
me with the dishes and everything will come off better for you. You
see if I ain't right by what I tell you. You just stop crying now Lena
quick, or else I scold you."

Lena still choked a little and was very miserable inside her but she
did everything just as the cook told her.

The girls Lena always sat with were very sorry to see her look so sad
with her trouble. Mary the Irish girl sometimes got very angry with
her. Mary was always very hot when she talked to Lena's aunt Mathilda,
who thought she was so grand, and had such stupid, stuck up daughters.
Mary wouldn't be a fat fool like that ugly tempered Mathilda Haydon,
not for anything anybody could ever give her. How Lena could keep on
going there so much when they all always acted as if she was just dirt
to them, Mary never could see. But Lena never had any sense of how she
should make people stand round for her, and that was always all the
trouble with her. And poor Lena, she was so stupid to be sorry for
losing that gawky fool who didn't ever know what he wanted and just
said "ja" to his mamma and his papa, like a baby, and was scared to
look at a girl straight, and then sneaked away the last day like as
if somebody was going to do something to him. Disgrace, Lena talking
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