They will build a great deal upon you," said Mrs.Horn, realizing how much the Leightons must have built upon her, and how much out of proportion to her desert they must now dislike her; for she seemed to have had them on her mind from the time they came, and had always meant to recognize any reasonable claim they had upon her.
"It seems very odd, very sad," Margaret returned, "that you never could act unselfishly in society affairs.

If I wished to go and see those girls just to do them a pleasure, and perhaps because if they're strange and lonely, I might do them good, even--it would be impossible." "Quite," said her aunt.

"Such a thing would be quixotic.

Society doesn't rest upon any such basis.

It can't; it would go to pieces, if people acted from unselfish motives." "Then it's a painted savage!" said the girl.