“Would you rather be here, as you are, or at Miss Plympton's school as a sort of dependent?”
“Here, of course. I could not go back there, and face them all.”
“Would you rather live here or in some mean lodging, without money to pay your board?”
“Here,” said Edith, after a pause.
“There are worse situations in the world than this, then?”
“It seems so,” said Edith, slowly.
“By leaving this just now you would be doing worse, then?”
“It looks like it.”
“Well, then, may it not be better for you to remain here, for the present at least, until you hear something from Sir Lionel Dudleigh?”
“But how long will that be?”