"Whatever made you say that, Pink?" Norton burst out when they were seated. "David and Judy are set against you now."
"I think they were before, Norton."
"No, they weren't; or if they were, I don't care; they had nothing to say. Now you have given them a handle."
"I didn't say anything very bad," said Matilda with her voice trembling a little.
"No, but they'll take it so. What is it to us, what grandmamma, or any one else, does with a thing after we have given it? That is none of our affair. We only make the present."
"It would be very strange, though, to give anybody something you were not willing he should use," said Matilda.
"Of course. I am willing. I don't care what anybody does with a thing, after I have done with it."
"I care," said Matilda softly.
"Why? Now Pink, you don't. What do you care whether grandmamma drinks curaçoa or not after dinner?"
Matilda hesitated.