"Lose my mind, probably," was the answer.
"Riches make people so dreadfully commonplace," said Norah.
"What can be more commonplace than poverty?" Alex demanded.
"Well, I suppose both extremes are bad. It is, after all, the people who have neither poverty nor riches who have ideas and make something out of life."
"I could get heaps out of life if I were rich," Madelaine said.
"I still insist that rich people are to a considerable extent unoriginal and stupid. They associate with persons exactly like themselves, do the same things, say the same things, eat the same things—"
"This is Miss Pennington's hobby," Marion remarked, smiling.
"What would you do if you were to become rich?" Miss Virginia asked her.
"I believe I should go on with the shop for the present," was the reply.
"I think I should start a Settlement like the one you have told me about," Alex said, turning to Norah. "But then," she added, "I should have to learn a great deal first. You can't do anything that amounts to anything without learning how."