"No."
"How strange! Why not?"
"I lost interest."
"Oh!" he laughed. "Well, we all do that."
"The whole thing palled on me--struck me as ridiculous."
Eades was perplexed. He could not in the least understand this latest attitude. Surely, she was a girl of many surprises.
"I shouldn't think you would find charity ridiculous. A hard-hearted and cruel being like me might--but you--oh, Miss Ward! To think that helping the poor was ridiculous!"
"But it isn't to help the poor at all."
He was still more perplexed.
"It's to help the rich. Can't you see that?"