The Potato Child & Others

Miss Amanda looked at the matron as if she were speaking Greek and said nothing. It was quite plain that few words, either kind or unkind would pass Miss Amanda's lips. But The Home was more than full and Miss Amanda Armstrong was a person well known as the leading dressmaker in the city a person of some money; not obliged to work now if she didn't wish to". If cold, she is at least perfectly just, they all said. So Elsie went to work for Miss Amanda and lived in the kitchen. She waited on the door, washed the dishes, cleaned the vegetables and set the table. Every Friday she swept the house. Her bed was in a little room in the back attic.