"At the present moment you are poor as to money," the girl had said, and had said it as though such poverty were, after all, but a small thing in their relative positions one to another.

That Nina should be loved, and Rebecca not loved, was a much greater thing.

For her father's sake she would take the things sent--and for Rebecca's sake.

She would take even the shoes, which she wanted so sorely.

She remembered well, as she read the last word, how, when Rebecca had been with her, she herself had pointed to the poor broken slippers which she wore, not meaning to excite such compassion as had now been shown.