"Why can't you take as well as I can take ?" She turned upon her hotly, as if resentful of being toyed with.

"How silly! It is yours." Katie had said it at random, but once expressed it interested her.
"Why I don't know whether it is or not," she said, suddenly more interested in the idea itself than in its effect upon Ann.

"Why is it?
I didn't earn it." "There's no use talking _that_ way.

It's yours because you've got it." That not seeming to bring ethical satisfaction she added: "It's yours because your family earned it." Katie was unfastening the muslin gown.

"But as a matter of fact,"-- getting more and more interested--"they didn't.