"You have only heard half my plan. It will cost you nothing. You have heard only what you are to get—not what you are to give."
"Let me hear. What am I to give?"
"The benefits of your knowledge of the world, and knowledge of literature, and knowledge of languages, to two persons who need and are with out them all."
"'Two persons.' What sort of persons?"
"Two of the daughters I spoke of."
Mrs. Barclay was silent a minute, looking at him.
"Whose plan is this?"
"Your humble servant's. As I said, one must make a beginning; and this is my beginning of an attempt to do good in the world."
"How old are these two persons?"
"One of them, about eighteen, I judge. The other, a year or two older."