"Only," replied Amy, "a good many people have no work, and then of course they have nothing to live on."
"How do you know?" asked Dora; "do you ever go and see any of them but
Stephen?"
"Oh dear, yes!" replied Amy, in a tone of surprise; "all the people in the village I know quite well; mamma always takes me with her to their cottages."
"And does aunt Herbert like going?" said Dora.
"Yes, very much, except when she is tired and ill; but she goes just the same; and they are so fond of her."
Dora looked thoughtful, and said that it must be a great deal of trouble.
"Sometimes it is," said Amy; "but mamma always seems better when she comes back."
"There is not anything done for rich people when they are unhappy," said
Dora; "no one thinks of trying to give them pleasure."
"Do you think that is quite the case?" asked Miss Morton. "I should have said that there was care and kindness shown to every one every day of their lives."
"Not to me," said Dora, "excepting, of course, from papa and mamma."