What becomes of give and take?
Do you conceive that you are going to sail through life taking everything and giving nothing ?" Martin had asked her this, and Alice, and now here was Gilbert Palgrave putting it to her as though it were an indictment! "But I'm a kid," she cried out.

"What do you all mean?
Can't I be allowed to have any fun without paying for it?
I'm only just out of the shell.

I've only been living for a few weeks.

Can't you see that I'm a kid?
I have the right to take all I can get for nothing,--the right of youth.

What do you mean--all of you ?" She came out from behind the piano and stood in front of him, as erect as a silver birch, and as slim and young.