"Well," Daniel suddenly announced with a magnanimous air that seemed to swell his chest, "I'll send her a check. I'll send her five dollars. Maybe I'll make it ten."
"Ten dollars yet, Danny!" said Sadie, regarding her brother with affectionate admiration.
"I'm not sure I'll send as much as ten. But anyhow five."
"She'll be sure to show the check around to prove to those neighbours how good you are to her."
"And there will be some among them," said Daniel indignantly, "that will be ready enough to call it stingy!"
"Oh, well, some folks would say it was stingy if you sent her twenty-five dollars yet!"
"If you and Sadie want to put a little to what I send," Daniel tentatively suggested, "we might make it ten or fifteen."
"Well," said Jennie reluctantly, "it ain't fair for you to pay all, either. What do you say, Sadie?"
"Well," Sadie hesitatingly agreed; "for all, I did want to get a new fancy for my white hat. How much will you give, Jennie?"
"Well, if you and I each give two-fifty to Danny's five or ten, that ought to stop her neighbours' talking out there."