“Well—she has both a nurse and a governess——”
“They’re quite well off, aren’t they? I seem to remember that Pratt came into quite a lot.”
“They seem to spend a great deal.”
“But that’s only a small house of theirs?”
“Oh, yes, they’re rather proud of that. They don’t spend their money selfishly. It goes to the Cause, you see.”
“What Cause?” Lady Tasker asked abruptly.
This was Katie’s cue....
She ceased, and Lady Tasker muttered something. It sounded rather like “H’m! Too much money and not enough to do!” but neither of her companions was near enough to be quite sure.
And thereupon the questions stopped.
But a surmise of their drift had begun to dawn glimmeringly upon Dorothy. She ceased to hear the exposition of Imperialism’s real needs into which Katie presently launched, and fell into a meditation. And of that meditation this was about the length and breadth:—