"Why—the use of that one."
"Yes, but it don't really make any difference to speak of, when you think of all the people that you cannot help. The world won't be any better; don't you see?"
"If I was the one to be helped, I should think it made a great deal of difference, Norton."
Norton could not dispute that view of the case, though he whistled over it.
"Pink, will you come and play croquet to-morrow?"
"To-morrow? I will see if I can," said Matilda, with a brightening face.
"What's to hinder you?"
"I don't know that anything. If Aunt Candy will let me."
"Does she hinder you?"
"Sometimes," Matilda said, hesitating.