"I have always been against her about you."
"Has Aunt Katrina been savage too?"
"She has given her a home, at any rate."
"And a pretty one it must have been, if she has looked, while about it, as you look now," Lanse commented.
"Never mind my looks. I don't know that your own are any better. What have you to say?"
"One thing more, first. How much has Margaret told?"
"Nothing. That is, nothing to me."
"I meant Aunt K."
"How should I know?" said Winthrop, shortly. Then he made himself speak with more truth. "Aunt Katrina complains that Margaret has never said a word."
"Yet you've all been disapproving of her all this time! Now I call that a specimen of the fixed injustice so common among nice people," said Lanse, musingly. He was sorry for the nice people.