It was, of course, so much pleasanter if these old people could be induced to go to Brexley willingly.
"Shall I be undermining the whole Political Economy of Stornham if I take care of her myself ?" suggested Betty.
"You--you will lead others to expect the same thing will be done for them." "When one has resources to draw on," Miss Vanderpoel commented, "in the case of a woman who has lived eighty-three years and brought up ten children until they were old and strong enough to leave her to take care of herself, it is difficult for the weak of mind to apply the laws of Political Economics.

I will go and see old Mrs.Welden." If the Vanderpoels would provide for all the obstinate old men and women in the parish, the Political Economics of Stornham would proffer no marked objections.

"A good many Americans," Mrs.Brent reflected, "seemed to have those odd, lavish ways," as witness Lady Anstruthers herself, on her first introduction to village life.

Miss Vanderpoel was evidently a much stronger character, and extremely clever, and somehow the stream of the American fortune was at last being directed towards Stornham--which, of course, should have happened long ago.

A good deal was "being done," and the whole situation looked more promising.