"Want? Isn't that a strong word? One isn't in want unless one is without food and shelter."
"She has the shelter for the time being; I'm not sure that she always has the food."
"What? You don't know what you're saying."
"I know exactly what I'm saying; and I mean exactly what I say. There have been days when I've suspected that she's pinching in the essentials of meat and drink."
"But she has pupils."
"She has two; but they must pay her very little. It's dreadful for people who have as much as we to have to look on at the tragedy of others going hungry—"
"Good Lord! Don't pile it on."
Striding to a window, he stood with his back to her, staring out.
"I'm not piling it on, Derek. I wish I were."
"Well, can't we do something? If it's as you say, they mustn't be left like that."