She has told me so.

And because she's in love with a man whom she knows to be a slacker she's eaten up with shame.

Now she won't speak to him To avoid meeting him she lives entirely at the hospital--a paying probationer." "That must be since the last Committee Meeting," I said.
"Yes." "And Daniel Gedge pays a guinea a week ?" "He doesn't," said Betty.

"I do." I accepted the information with a motion of the head.

She went on after a minute or so.