"Five a week," said that lady inflexibly.

"But we paid Germaine more," said Alexandra eagerly. "And didn't you
pay Lizzie six and a half?"

"The last two months I did, yes," her mother agreed unwillingly.
"But that comes only to twenty-six or seven," she added.

"But, look here," said Owen, reading. "Here it says: 'NOTE. Where a
graduate is required to manage on a budget, it is computed that she
saves the average family from two to seven dollars weekly on food
and fuel bills.'"

"Now that begins to sound like horse sense," Mr. Salisbury began.
But the mistress of the house merely smiled, and shook a dubious
head, and the younger members of the family here created a diversion
by reminding their sister's guest, with animation, that he had half-
asked them to go out for a short ride in his car. Alexandra
accordingly ran for a veil, and the young quartette departed with
much noise, Owen stuffing his pamphlets and booklet into his pocket
before he went.

Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury settled down contentedly to double Canfield,
the woman crushing out the last flicker of the late topic with a
placid shake of the head, when the man asked her for her honest
opinion of the American School of Domestic Science. "I don't truly
think it's at all practical, dear," said Mrs. Salisbury regretfully.
"But we might watch it for a year or two and go into the question
again some time, if you like. Especially if some one else has tried
one of these maids, and we have had a chance to see how it goes!"