"Are they engaged?"
"Well, no; but I intend that they shall be. You won't begrudge that I should give my little savings to one of my own name?"
"You don't know me, Aunt Stanbury, if you think that I should begrudge anything that you might do with your money."
"Dolly has been here a month or two. I think it's three months since she came, and I do like her. She's soft and womanly, and hasn't taken up those vile, filthy habits which almost all the girls have adopted. Have you seen those Frenches with the things they have on their heads?"
"I was speaking to them yesterday."
"Nasty sluts! You can see the grease on their foreheads when they try to make their hair go back in the dirty French fashion. Dolly is not like that;—is she?"
"She is not in the least like either of the Miss Frenches."
"And now I want her to become Mrs. Gibson. He is quite taken."
"Is he?"
"Oh dear, yes. Didn't you see him the other night at dinner and afterwards? Of course he knows that I can give her a little bit of money, which always goes for something, Brooke. And I do think it would be such a nice thing for Dolly."