Her own real interests had lain elsewhere; and her mind had been too slow in developing to let her appreciate his fundamental difference from other people.
At any rate her father's unpopularity had been lately acute, and Pamela herself felt it bitterly, and shrank from her neighbours and the cottage people.

When Desmond came home with a D.S.O., or a Victoria Cross, as of course he would, she supposed it would be all right.

But meanwhile not a single thing done for the war!--not a _sou_ to the Red Cross, or to any war funds! And hundreds spent on antiquities--thousands perhaps--getting them deeper and deeper into debt.

For she was quite aware that they were in debt; and her own allowance was of the smallest.

Two hundred and fifty a year, too, for Miss Bremerton!--when they could barely afford to keep up the garden decently, or repair the house.