you've lost all your money and have got to go out into the cold world
to make a living?"

"I believe I have lost some money, Nancy, but I rather like the idea
of working for my living."

"Oh, you poor child, you little know what it is. I can't bear to think
of it. I can't see how Doctor Mack can let you go."

"I should be very sorry if he refused. It isn't so bad, to work for a
living. Haven't you always done it?"

"Yes, but that's different. I was always poor, and I am used to it."

"I'm going to get used to it."

"Walter--don't tell your guardian what I am saying--but I've got two
hundred dollars in the savings bank, and I shall be very glad to give
you some of it. You will take it, now, won't you? I can get it out to-
morrow."

"Nancy, you are a true friend," said Walter, really moved by the
unselfish devotion of the house-keeper; "but I sha'n't need it. I
shall take a hundred dollars with me, and long before it is gone I
shall be earning my living."

"You'll send for it if you need it?"

"Yes; if I find I am very hard up, and there is no other way, I will
send for it."