"What is the boy doing now?" he asked gruffly.
"He is back there," she answered. "Mr. Hamilton soon afterwards discharged Carrots and came to see us and took Teddie back."
"What does he get?" her uncle inquired.
"Fifty pounds a year," Hazel replied cheerily, with some pride. "He has had a rise lately—it used to be forty."
Her uncle muttered something in response, then coughed to cover his words.
"I beg your pardon?" Hazel apologised.
Her uncle evaded the note of interrogation. "What do the others earn?" he asked.
"I don't know exactly what Cecil's salary is," she returned. "He sends every penny home that he can afford; he is in India, you know, and it is a good lot—a couple of hundred, I should imagine. Guy and Gerald have each a hundred a year; Gerald gives up fifty of his, but Guy, who is obliged to dress better, has to keep seventy-five for himself." She paused.
"There is another one, isn't there?" Mr. Desborough asked.
"Yes, Hugh," the devoted sister continued. "Till lately he had forty, like Teddie, but now he is getting a hundred too."