American Agriculturist, March 1, 1924 
The Broad Highway 
{Continued from page 22) 
“Perhaps!” said she, curling her lip 
at me, “perhaps, indeed!” Having said 
which, Charmian became absorbed in her 
accounts again, and I in Charmian. 
Ovid tells us that Chione was beautiful 
enough to inflame two gods, and that 
Antiope’s beauty drew down from heaven 
the mighty Jove himself; and yet, was 
either of them formed more splendidly 
than she who sat so near me, frowning at 
what she had written, and petulantly 
biting her pen? 
“Impossible!” said I, so suddenly that 
Charmian started and dropped her pen, 
which I picked up, feeling very like a fool. 
“What did you mean by ‘impossible,’ 
Peter?” 
“I was —thinking merely.” 
“Then I wish you would n’t think so 
suddenly next time.” 
“I beg your pardon.” 
“Nor be so very emphatic about it.” 
“No,” said I, “er—no.” Hereupon, 
deigning to receive her pen back again, she 
recommenced her figuring, while I began 
to fill my pipe. 
“Two shillings for tea!” 
“Excellent!” said I. 
“I do wish,” she sighed, raising her 
head to shake it reproachfully at me, 
“that you would be a little more sensible.” 
“I’ll try.” 
“Tea at twelve shillings a pound is a 
luxury!” 
“Undoubtedly!” 
“And to pay two shillings for a luxury 
when we are so poor—is sinful!” 
“Oh!” said I; “and yet, life without 
tea— more especially as you brew . it— 
would be very stale, flat, and unprofit¬ 
able, and — ” 
“Bacon and eggs— one shilling and 
fourpence!” she went on, consulting her 
accounts. 
“Ah!” said I, not venturing on “good,” 
this time. 
“Butter — one shilling!” 
“Hum!” said I cautiously, and with 
the air of turning this over in my mind. 
‘' V egetables—tenpence! ’ ’ 
“To be sure,” said I, nodding my head, 
“tenpence, certainly.” 
“And bread, Peter” (this in a voice of 
tragedy) “—eightpence.” 
' “Excellent!” said I recklessly, whereat 
Charmian immediately frowned at me. 
i “Oh, Peter!” said she, with a sigh of 
resignation, “you possess absolutely no 
idea of proportion. Here we pay four 
shillings for meat, and only eightpence for 
bread; had we spent less on luxuries and 
more on necessaries we should have had 
money in hand instead of—let me see!” 
and she began adding up the various 
items before her with soft, quick little 
pats of her fingers on the table. Pres¬ 
ently, having found the total, she 
announced: 
“We have spent nine shillings and ten- 
pence, Peter!” 
“Good, indeed!” said I. 
“Leaving exactly—twopence over.” 
“A penny for you, and a penny for 
me.” 
“I fear I am a very bad housekeeper, 
Peter.” 
“On the contrary.” 
“You earn ten shillings a week.' 
“Well?” 
“And here is exactly—twopence left — 
oh, Peter!” 
“You are forgetting the tea and the 
heef, and — and the other luxuries,” said 
I, struck by the droop of her mouth. 
“But you work so very, very hard, 
and earn so little—and that little—” 
“I work that I may live, Charmian, 
and lo! I am alive.” 
“And dreadfully poor!” 
“And ridiculously happy.” 
“I wonder why?” said she, beginning 
to draw designs on the page before her. 
“Indeed, though I have asked myself 
that question frequently of late, I have 
as yet found no answer, unless it be my 
busy, care-free life, with the warm sun 
about me and the voice of the wind in 
the trees.” 
“Yes, perhaps that is it.” 
{To be continued) 
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