"I do say the most hideous things.

But we HAVE said worse, haven't we?
Up to now, I mean, he hasn't given her anything.

Unless indeed," she mused, "she may have had something without telling me." Vanderbank went much straighter.

"What sort of thing have you in mind?
Are you thinking of money ?" "Yes.

Isn't it awful ?" "That you should think of it ?" "That I should talk this way." Her friend was apparently not prepared with an assent, and she quickly enough pursued: "If he HAD given her any it would come out somehow in her expenditure.