d,
but when her glasses broke that made it clear. That meant that it was
she herself who had been bad.

No, it was no use for Anna not to do the way she should, for things
always then went wrong and finally cost money to make whole, and this
was the hardest thing for the good Anna to endure.

Anna almost always did her duty. She made confession and her mission
whenever it was right. Of course she did not tell the father when
she deceived people for their good, or when she wanted them to give
something for a little less.

When Anna told such histories to her doctor and later to her cherished
Miss Mathilda, her eyes were always full of humor and enjoyment as she
explained that she had said it so, and now she would not have to tell
the father for she had not really made a sin.

But going to a fortune teller Anna knew was really bad. That had to be
told to the father just as it was and penance had then to be done.

Anna did this and now her new life was well begun, making Miss
Mathilda and the rest do just the way they should.

Yes, taking care of Miss Mathilda were the happiest days of all the
good Anna's strong hard working life.

With Miss Mathilda Anna did it all. The clothes, the house, the hats,
what she should wear and when and what was always best for her to do.
There was nothing Miss Mathilda would not let Anna manage, and only be
too glad if she would do.

Anna scolded and cooked and sewed and saved so well, that Miss
Mathilda had so much to spend, that it kept Anna still busier scolding
all the time about the things she bought, that made so much work for
Anna and the other girl to do. But for all the scolding, Anna was
proud almost to bursting of her cherished Miss Mathilda with all her
knowledge and her great possessions, and the good Anna was always
telling of it all to everybody that she knew.

Yes these were the happiest days of all her life with Anna, even
though with her friends there were great sorrows. But these sorrows
did not hurt the good Anna now, as they had done in the years that
went before.

Miss Mathilda was not a romance in the good Anna's life, but Anna gave
her so much strong affection that it almost filled her life as full.

It was well for the good Anna that her life with Miss Mathilda was so
happy, for now in these days, Mrs. Lehntman went altogether bad. The
doctor she had learned to know, was too certainly an evil as well as
a mysterious man, and he had power over the widow