“Why of course?”
“Because I live with her, and she pays me good wages. I’m not going to run down the bridge that carries me over.”
“Not in a general way; but to me, just for the sake of telling the truth to an old friend, you know.”
“Well, if you must know, she’s an old cat.”
“Exactly,” said Jane, with a nod of the head.
“One of your charitable women.”
“Gives away prayer-books and Bibles, no doubt.”
“Plenty of them; tracts, too; but the Bible-House always finds the books, make sure of that.”
“Isn’t the woman to give away velvet-bound prayer-books or things of that kind at her own expense, ah?”
“What, she? Well, yes, if the person she gave ’em to was rich enough not to care for them. On Christmas-day I have known her do such things.”