Whereupon we both fell to thinking how fortunate are they whose work is hard enough to keep them out of mischief of any kind.
"But there must be," I said, "some months, perhaps in the summer, when she doesn't work. I have heard that some actors take houses among the mountains and do their own housework for recreation."
"I," said Annabel Lee, "can not quite imagine this woman with the red hair making bread and scouring pans and kettles for pleasure. But very likely she sometimes goes into the country for vacations, and I can fancy her doing the various small enjoyable things that celebrities can afford to do—like wading barefooted in a narrow brooklet, or swinging high and recklessly in a barrel-stave hammock."
"And since she is so adorable on the
