"I'm not. It's you I'm sorriest for. You've had nothing. From beginning to end you had nothing.
"I might at least have seen that you had it in the beginning."
"You, Mummy?"
"Yes. Me. You shall have it now. Unless you want to leave me."
"I wouldn't leave you for the world, Mummy ducky. Only you must let me work always and all the time."
"Let you? I'll let you do what you like, my dear."
"You always have let me, haven't you?"
"It was the least I could do."
"Poor Mummy, did you think you had to make up because you cared for them more than me?"
"I wonder," said Frances, thoughtfully, "if I did."