"Don't change the word. The first was best."
"But I have to go, all the same. Please don't say any more, because nothing can change what Sissie told me. I want to ask something else. May I?"
"Anything in the world."
"Who will pay all the bills?"
"What bills?"
One hand held the other fast. "All that for—for Sissie—the doctor, and everything?"
"Mr. Jasper will take nothing, and Dr. Bryant undertakes all that is necessary. Didn't your brother tell you?"
"No."
"He ought. Dr. Bryant wrote to him, and to us too. He says it is the last he can do for—her, you know! And it is a pleasure to him."
"Thank you," murmured Lettice, and she said no more.