"I thought ministers were always poor."
"I am an exception, then."
"And—Basil—you never acted like a rich man."
"I am not going to, Di. Do you want to act like a rich woman?"
Spite of her desperate downheartedness, Diana could not help laughing a little at his manner.
"I do not wish anything different from you," she answered.
"It is best for every reason, if you would use money to advantage in a place like this, not to make a show of it. And in other places, if you would use it to advantage, you cannot make a show of it. So it comes to the same thing. But short of that, Di, we can do what we like."
"I know what you like,"—she said.
"I shall find out what you like. In the first place, where do you think you are going?"
"Where? I never thought about it. I suppose to Mrs. Persimmon's."