He's dead now." "What a poor little uncared-for waif you must have been." Paul laughed.

"Oh, don't pity me.

I've had to think for myself a good deal, it is true.

But it has done me good.

Don't you find it's the things one learns for oneself--whether they are about life or old china--that are the most valuable ?" "Of course," said Miss Winwood.