"I said, or rather intended to say, that you would be likely to waste it.

You are the sort of girl who ought to have the best Overton can offer, because--well--because you deserve it.

You think too much about other people, and not enough about yourself," she concluded shortly.
"What a selfish Elfreda," laughed Grace, walking across the room and sitting down beside the stout girl, whose round face looked unusually severe.

"One might think Elfreda Briggs never did an unselfish act in all her twenty-two years.

Now I am going to give you a piece of your own advice.