The things she wants in life she will have somehow, but it is all the time at other people's expense.

Some day she will have to pay for it." Tavernake sighed.
"It is very unfortunate," he declared.

"The commission on the letting of Grantham House would have been worth having." "After all, it is only your firm's loss," she reminded him.
"It does not appeal to me like that," he continued.

"So long as I am manager for Dowling & Spence, I feel these things personally.

However, that does not matter.