It was Elfreda who finally voiced it.

"It looks as though the S.F.'s ought to get busy," she said slangily.

"We might lend her the money to make up the difference." "I am afraid that wouldn't do," objected Anne, whose practical experience with poverty had made her wise.

"I imagine with her it is a question of being economical.

It wouldn't be fair to tempt her to extravagance, for a single would be the height of improvidence, particularly if she had to go in debt for it." "Anne is right," declared Gertrude Wells decidedly.