"It is Miss Needwood's at Chalk-pit Farm." "What! that poor helpless thing that never can keep a situation! Did you get it for a pattern, Jessie?" "Yes," said Jessie; "she lent it to me." "It is beautiful," said Grace, examining it minutely. "You ought to work like that, Jessie." "I would if I could," said Jessie, "and I mean to try; but, Grace, I shall only finish this first dozen. I shall send the other five dozen to Bessie Needwood. She is in great want of work, and will do them much better than I." "Well I never!" cried Grace. "I never thought you'd turn lazy, and give up what you had undertaken--when I had asked for the handkerchiefs on purpose for you, because I thought a little pocket money would come in convenient!" "So it would. It was very kind of you, Grace; but Miss Needwood will do them better than I." "Not than you if you chose to take the pains and trouble." "No," said Jessie, "if I don't hurry them too quick to try to do those finest stitches, I sha'n't have time to do them at all, in these after hours of mine." "Well, that you should choose to confess yourself not able to do as well as a poor dozing thing like that! It's all laziness." "No, that it is not," said Jessie, rather hotly. "I thought if those were off my hands I could help you, and then mother need not have any of this work to do, or be so driven and put about." "You don't expect to be paid for any part of mother's work," said Grace, with some sharpness. "I've got my own use for that in the business." "No, I don't!" and Jessie went suddenly off in a little bit of temper for which she was sorry afterwards, wishing she had said that her real reason--besides the helping Miss Needwood--was the hope to save her mother from being over driven, and not to have another Sunday so cumbered with worldly matters. Grace came down to tea grumbling, and appealing to her mother about Jessie's laziness; and Mrs. Hollis, for whose sake the girl had resigned five-sixths of her hoped-for gain, was inclined to be vexed at any of the work going out of the family, or her Jessie allowing herself to be beaten. It was very vexatious, and Jessie was glad when Uncle Andrew dropped in to tea, and to change the current of their thoughts. She was to stay at home to guard the house while the others went to evensong, and this gave her the quiet opportunity of packing up five dozen handkerchiefs, and writing a note to send with them to Bessie Needwood the first thing in the morning, by any child who came early to the shop.