But it was not long before I found him out." "What do you mean ?" And there was a flash in Peggy's eyes.

"What has he done ?" "To my certain knowledge he has spent more than four hundred thousand dollars since last September.

That is something, is it not ?" Miss Drew said, in her slow, cool voice, and even Peggy's loyalty admitted some justification in the criticism.
"Generosity has ceased to be a virtue, then ?" she asked coldly.
"Generosity!" exclaimed Barbara, sharply.

"It's sheer idiocy.

Haven't you heard the things people are saying?
They are calling him a fool, and in the clubs they are betting that he will be a pauper within a year." "Yet they charitably help him to spend his money.