700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 28
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 28
The young woman walked from room to room of the house. It was not a very large house; it was, indeed, a house like so many others up and down the country. It had in it 5 rooms, two down with 3 bedrooms above. It had electric fires in all the bedrooms and an electric water-heating system. The fact that her house was just like thousands of other small houses did not influence the judgement of the young woman at all. In one way it was quite different from all the other houses, for it was hers. It was her own house to live in and to make comfortable and beautiful. It was her own house, and she had made up her mind to live happily in it and to make all who lived in it happy as well. Her mind was serious as she moved about, but her heart was light. I am a married woman now, she thought. I am married woman with all the responsibility that goes with marriage, but how happy I am! And, of course, she ought to have been happy. Her name was Penny. Two weeks before she had been Penny Wills: now sh…
