'Of course you do!' laughed Bridget. 'You don't squander money, my dear!'
'Only because I haven't got it to spend, you mean?' said Nelly, flushing.
'No—but you should look at things sensibly. The people who are making money are spending it—oceans of it! And the people who have money, like the Farrells, are spending it too. Wait till you see how they live!'
'But there's the hospital!' cried Nelly.
Bridget shrugged her shoulders.
'That's because they can afford to give the hospital, and have the motor-cars too. If they had to choose between hospitals and motor-cars!'
'Lots of people do!'
'You think Sir William Farrell looks like doing without things?' said
Bridget, provokingly. Then she checked herself. 'Of course I like Sir
William very much. But then I don't see why he shouldn't have
motor-cars or any other nice thing he wants.'
'That's because—you don't think enough—you never think enough—about the war!' said Nelly, insistently.
Bridget's look darkened.