"I never understood.

I knew something made you hate me, but I didn't know you were angry about money." She laughed tremulously and wildly.

"I would have given it to you--father would have given you some--if you had been good to me." The laugh became hysterical beyond her management.

Peal after peal broke from her, she shook all over with her ghastly merriment, sobbing at one and the same time.
"Oh! oh! oh!" she shrieked.

"You see, I thought you were so aristocratic.