‘It’s too bad that she should have to keep ‘Arry in idleness.’
‘She hasn’t to keep him. I send her money.’
‘But how are you to afford that?’
‘That’s not your business.’
Alice looked indignant.
‘I think you might speak more politely to me in my own house.’
‘It isn’t your own house.’
‘It is as long as I live in it. I suppose you’d like to see me go back to a workroom. It’s all very well for you; if you live in lodgings, that doesn’t say you’ve got no money. We have to do the best we can for ourselves; we haven’t got your chances of making a good bargain.’
It was said with much intention; Alice hall closed her eyes and curled her lips in a disdainful smile.
‘What chances? What do you mean?’