nodded with the weariness of the day s toil while she for herself ideas from the dainty garments that had under her passing iron say saxon i got a new name for you you re my topic kid that s what you are the kid you ll never get tired of me she tired why we was made for each other by the valley op the moon isn t it wonderful our meeting we might never have met it was just by accident that we did we was bom lucky he proclaimed that s a maybe it was more than luck she ventured sure it just had to be it was fate nothing could a kept us apart they sat on in a silence that was quick with love till she felt him slowly draw her more closely and his lips come near to her ear as they whispered what do you say we go to bed many evenings they spent like this varied with an occasional dance with to the and to bell s or to the moving picture shows or to the friday night band in city hall park often on sunday she prepared a lunch and he drove her out into the hills behind prince and king whom s employer was still glad to have him exercise each morning saxon was called by the alarm clock the first morning he had insisted upon getting up with her and building the fire in the kitchen stove she gave in the first morning but after that she laid the fire in the evening so that all that was required was the touching of a match to it and in bed she compelled him to remain for a last little ere she called him for breakfast the first several weeks she prepared his lunch for him then for a week he came down to dinner after that he was compelled to take his lunch with him it depended on how far distant the was done you re not starting right with a man mary you wait on him hand and foot you u spoil him if you don t watch out it s him that ought to be on you he s the bread saxon replied he works harder than i and i ve got more time than i know what to do with � time to bum besides i want to wait on him because i love to and because well anyway i want to by ic chapter ii despite the of her housekeeping saxon once she had it found time and to spare on her hands especially during the periods in which her husband carried his lunch and there was no midday meal to prepare she had a number of hours each day to herself trained for years to the routine of factory and work she could not abide this idleness she could not bear to sit and do nothing while she could not pay calls on her friends for they still worked in factory and nor was she acquainted with the wives of the neighborhood save for � one strange old woman who lived in the house next door and with whom saxon had exchanged of conversation over the back yard division fence one time diversion of which saxon took advantage was free and unlimited in the orphan asylum and in s house she had been used to but one bath a week as she grew to womanhood she had attempted more frequent but the effort proved disastrous first s derision and next her wrath had in the era of the weekly saturday night bath and any increase in this function was regarded by her as putting on airs and as an against her own cleanliness also it was an extravagant of fuel and occasioned extra in the family wash but now in s house with her own stove her own tub and and soap and no one to say her nay saxon was guilty of a daily true it was only a common that she placed on the kitchen floor and filled by hand but it was a luxury that had taken her twenty four years to achieve it was from by ic the valley op the moon the woman next door that saxon received a hint dropped in casual conversation of what proved the joy of bathing a simple thing � a few drops of s in the water but saxon had never heard of it before she was destined to learn much from the strange woman the acquaintance had begun one day when saxon in the back yard r hanging out a couple of covers and pieces of her finest the woman leaning on the rail of her back porch had caught her eye and nodded as it seemed to saxon half to her and to the on the line you re newly married aren t you the woman asked i m mrs i prefer my first name which is and i m mrs saxon replied thrilling to the of the on her tongue my first name is saxon strange name for a yankee woman the other com oh but i m not yankee saxon exclaimed i m la la laughed i forgot i was in america in other lands all americans are called it is true that you are newly married saxon nodded with a happy sigh sighed too oh you happy soft beautiful young thing i could envy you to hatred � you with all the man world ripe to be twisted about your pretty little fingers and you don t realize your fortune no one does until it s too late saxon was puzzled and disturbed though she answered readily oh but i do know how lucky i am i have the finest man in the world sighed again and changed the subject she nodded her head at the garments i see you like pretty things it is good judgment for 