"Don't cry, dear," she whispered. "Don't. The day you came here we were beggars. You have literally, fed and housed us for the last month."
Peg looked up at Ethel in astonishment.
She forgot her own sorrow.
"Ye were beggars?"
"Yes. We have nothing but the provision made for your training."
Poor Mrs. Chichester looked at her daughter reproachfully.
Alaric had never seen his sister even INTERESTED much less EXCITED before. He turned to his mother, shrugged his shoulders and said:
"I give it up! That's all I can say! I simply give it up!"
Peg grasped the full meaning of Ethel's words:
"And will ye have nothin' if I go away?"