21/32 After a minute he turned. "And I had the gall to ask you if Henshaw made her--happy! Overflow house, indeed!" "The best of it is, the way she does it," smiled Arkwright. "They're all the sort of people ordinary charity could never reach; and the only way she got them there at all was to make each one think that he or she was absolutely necessary to the rest of them. Even as it is, they all pay a little something toward the running expenses of the house. They insisted on that, and Mrs.Henshaw had to let them. |