Flora thought Ethel put almost too forward--they all helped at Cocksmoor, and Ethel was very queer and unformed, and could do nothing by herself.

The only thing Flora did keep in her mind was, that her papa had spoken to her, as if she were a woman compared with Ethel.
Little Blanche made her report of the conversation to Mary, "that it was so nice; and now she did not care about Miss Rivers's fine presents at all, for papa said what one made oneself was better to give than what one bought.

And papa said, too, that it was a good thing not to be rich, for then one never felt the miss of what one gave away." Margaret, who overheard the exposition, thought it so much to Blanche's credit, that she could not help repeating it in the evening, after the little girl was gone to bed, when Mr.Wilmot had come in to arrange the programme for Cocksmoor.

So the little fit of discontent and its occasion, the meeting with Meta Rivers, were discussed.
"Yes," said Mr.Wilmot, "those Riverses are open-handed.

They really seem to have so much money, that they don't know what to do with it.