“What’s the matter with your hand?” said Joe. Delia laughed and said:

　　“Oh, a funny thing happened! Clemantina gave me a plate of soup and spilled some of it on my hand. She was very sorry for it. And so was the old general. But why are you looking at me like that, Joe?”

　　“What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Delia?”

　　“Five o’clock, I think. The iron-I mean the soup-was ready about five, Why?”

　　“Delia, come and sit here,” said Joe. He drew her to the couch and sat beside her.

　　“What do you do every day, Delia? Do you really give music lesson? Tell me the truth.”

　　She began to cry.

　　“I couldn’t get any pupils,” she said, “So I got a place in a laundry ironing shirts. This afternoon a girl accidentally set down an iron on my hand and I got a bad burn. But tell me, Joe, how did you guess that I wasn’t giving music lessons?”

　　“It’s very simple,” said Joe. “I knew all about your bandages because I had to send them upstairs to a girl in the laundry who had an accident with a hot iron. You see, I work in the engine-room of the same laundry where you work.”

　　“And your pictures? Did you sell any to that man from Peoria?”

　　“Well, your general with his Clemantina is an invention, and so is my man from Peoria.”

　　And then they both laughed.

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