But she might as well be hurt one way as another; and, besides, that particular sort of pride was just what she hadn't.

So his slight resistance, while they lingered, had been just easy enough not to be impossible.
"I hate to encourage you--and for such a purpose, after all--to spend your money." She had stood a stair or two below him; where, while she looked up at him beneath the high, domed light of the hall, she rubbed with her palm the polished mahogany of the balustrade, which was mounted on fine ironwork, eighteenth-century English.

"Because you think I must have so little?
I've enough, at any rate--enough for us to take our hour.
Enough," she had smiled, "is as good as a feast! And then," she had said, "it isn't of course a question of anything expensive, gorged with treasure as Maggie is; it isn't a question of competing or outshining.
What, naturally, in the way of the priceless, hasn't she got?
Mine is to be the offering of the poor--something, precisely, that--no rich person COULD ever give her, and that, being herself too rich ever to buy it, she would therefore never have." Charlotte had spoken as if after so much thought.

"Only, as it can't be fine, it ought to be funny--and that's the sort of thing to hunt for.

Hunting in London, besides, is amusing in itself." He recalled even how he had been struck with her word.