"Is it really necessary ?" "Yes, it really is necessary," she answered frankly.

"Father's got much poorer, and everything's about a hundred times as dear as it was before the War.

But you mustn't think that I mind.

I like it in a way--and it won't last for ever.

Some of father's investments are beginning to recover a little even now, and prices are coming down--" They had now come back to the garden end of the Long Walk.