She nodded "All right," and I rose up into the blue sky. I almost thought I had wings.
"My aunt is really a kind woman—I can do almost anything with her."
"Do you think that proves it?" I said. I wanted to say that I was that sort of a kind person myself, but I did not dare.
"My father says she has a foible—she thinks she is a wonderful business woman, because she can run up a column of figures correctly, and that she makes a great to-do over small things, and lets the big ones go. She would not take his advice; so he gave up trying to advise her and she relies on two men who flatter and deceive her."
"Yes."
"I don't see how she can keep those two men, McSheen and Gillis, as her counsel and agent. But I suppose she found them there and does not like to change. My father says——"
Just then Mrs. Argand, after a long scrutiny of us through her lorgnon, said rather sharply:
"Eleanor!"
Miss Leigh turned hastily and plunged into a sentence.
"Aunt, you do not know how much good the little chapel you helped out in the East Side does. Mr. Mar—the preacher there gets places for poor people that are out of employment, and——"