"It is a pity that it is not you who are going up for the exam instead of me. It would be so easy for you. They think so much of drawing and playing and accomplishments generally, I'm told."
Leslie looked at her half-startled.
"You think I—I could pass, that I could get a place in a school!" she faltered.
Lucy laughed confidently.
"Oh, yes! Why, easily. But you do not want it, fortunately."
Leslie looked at her in silence for a minute, then she took out her purse and turned the money out on the table.
"That is all I have in the world," she said with a quiet smile.
Lucy crimsoned, and then turned pale.
"Oh, I—I beg your pardon. Please—please forgive me!" she said. "I did not know, I thought——."
"That I was a princess, a millionairess," said Leslie, smiling. "No, as you see, I am very poor, and quite—quite alone. I would give something for a mother and six brothers and sisters, Miss Somes."