Sir Nigel----" "Too much!" exclaimed Rosalie.

"They have lost everything, you know; their hayricks and cattle as well as their house; I guess it won't be half enough." Mrs.Brent dragged her into the vicar's study and talked to her.

She tried to explain that in English villages such things were not done in a manner so casual, as if they were the mere result of unconsidered feeling, as if they were quite natural things, such as any human person might do.

When Rosalie cried: "But why not--why not?
They ought to be." Mrs.Brent could not seem to make herself quite clear.

Rosalie only gathered in a bewildered way that there ought to be more ceremony, more deliberation, more holding off, before a person of rank indulged in such munificence.