He would find it so dull." "I see," said Isabel.

"But he can't afford pleasures for you." There was no perceptible sarcasm in her voice, but Dinah coloured a little and went at once to her father's defence.
"He sends Billy to a public school.

Of course I--being only a girl--don't count.

And he has sent us out here, which was very good of him--the sweetest thing he has ever done.

He had a lucky speculation the other day, and he has spent it nearly all on us.