"And all those pretty dresses."
"And all those pretty dresses," repeated Mona, with the air of one who is making a deliberate confession.
"And nice damp uncut volumes."
"Not too many of those," with a defiant little nod of self-defence.
"And divers charities."
"Nay, alas! My bank-book has not suffered much from them."
"And concert tickets, and gloves for impecunious friends, not to say a couple of excellent stalls from time to time——"
"Nonsense, Lucy! Considering how hard we have worked, I don't think you and I have been at all extravagant in our amusements. No, no, I ought to be able to afford all that. My father left me four hundred a year, more or less."
"Good heavens!" If Mona had added a cipher, the sum could scarcely have impressed her companion more.
"There! that is so like you schoolgirls——"