Brodrick, going in deeper, became very grave. It seemed that each week Jane's expenditure overlapped her allowance with appalling regularity. It was the only regularity she had.
"Have you any idea, Jinny, how it goes?"
She shook her head sadly.
"If it's gone, it's gone. Why should we seek to know?"
"Just go into it with me," he said.
She went into it and emerged with an idea.
"It looks," said Jinny, "as if I ate more than Gertrude. Do I?"
Still abstracted, he suggested the advisability of saving.
"Can it be done?" said Jinny.
"It can," said Brodrick, "because Gertrude did it."