88/141 "All its favors are really bargains. It's gifts are for gifts back again." "Yes, that is true," said Mrs.Horn, with no more sense of wrong in the fact than the political economist has in the fact that wages are the measure of necessity and not of merit. It's a matter of business." She satisfied herself with this formula, which she did not invent, as fully as if it were a reason; but she did not dislike her niece's revolt against it. That was part of Margaret's originality, which pleased her aunt in proportion to her own conventionality; she was really a timid person, and she liked the show of courage which Margaret's magnanimity often reflected upon her. |