"She's probably been used to all sorts of silly luxuries." "Why of course, considering Uncle Risborough was supposed to have twenty-odd thousand a year.

We're paupers, and she's got to put up with us.

But we couldn't take her money and do nothing in return." Nora Hooper looked rather sharply at her sister.

It fell to her in the family to be constantly upholding the small daily traditions of honesty and fair play.

It was she who championed the servants, or insisted, young as she was, on bills being paid, when it would have been more agreeable to buy frocks and go to London for a theatre.