"Sheets? what do you mean? O Letty, I am not doing these for myself."
"You said you were."
"For myself—yes, in a way. I mean, I am doing this work for my own pleasure; not for my own bed. It is for some poor people."
"For some poor people," Letty repeated. "I think Mrs. Laval might have let one of her servants do it, if she wanted to be charitable, or hire it done, even; and not save a penny by setting you at it."
"She did not set me at it," said Matilda in despair. "O you don't understand. She has nothing to do with it at all."
"Are these yours, then?"
"Yes."
"You bought them and paid for them?"
"Yes. At least, a friend bought them for me, but I am going to pay him the money back."
"Is it your own money?"