To be dominated in the most intimate things of her life by this girl was not easy to be borne; but she realised that Kitty had been a friend indeed, even if not conventional.

In response to Kitty's remark now she inclined her head.
"Well, you have told us that you and your husband haven't made it up.
That is so, isn't it ?" Kitty continued.
"If you wish to put it that way," answered Mona, stiffening a little in spite of herself.
"P'r'aps I don't put it very well, but it is the stony fact, isn't it, Mrs.Crozier ?" Mona hesitated a moment, then answered: "He is very upset concerning the land syndicate, and he has a quixotic idea that he cannot take money from me to help him carry it through." "I don't quite know what quixotic means," rejoined Kitty dryly.

"If it wasn't understood while you lived together that what was one's was the other's, that it was all in one purse, and that you shut your eyes to the name on the purse and took as you wanted, I don't see how you could expect him, after your five years' desertion, to take money from you now." "My five years' desertion!" exclaimed Mona.

Surely this girl was more than reckless in her talk.

Kitty was not to be put down.