It encouraged her to go on.
"Jack gave me my choice of all the schools in the United States, and I chose this without hesitating an instant.

Jack is paying my expenses you know.

I couldn't have come a step if it hadn't been for him, and there wouldn't have been the faintest shadow of a hope of coming if he hadn't been promoted to the position of assistant manager at the mines.

Oh, Madam Chartley, I _wish_ you knew Jack! He's just the dearest brother that ever lived! So unselfish and so ambitious for us all"-- She stopped abruptly, feeling that she was letting her enthusiasm run away with her tongue.

But Madam, noting the quick leap of light to her eyes and the eager clasping of her hands as she spoke of him wanted to hear more.