She shrugged her shoulders also:
"It's very noble of you, Addie.... But we have to live too."
"Yes. But don't we live?"
"If we moved to the Hague, though ...?"
"We should have to be very economical."
"You're well off."
"I'm not well off.... Tilly, you know I'm not. Papa has a pretty considerable fortune. But he has a good many calls...."
"Calls!... why, you're his only son!"
"He might give us an allowance ... until I was making more money.... But even then we should have to be economical ... and live in a very small house."
She clasped her large, white hands: