30/35 But it must be tremendous fun to be rich. I love books where suddenly a lawyer's letter comes saying that someone has left them a fortune." "What would you do with a fortune if you got it ?" Peter Reid asked. "Miss Jean would at once make it over to David and Jock and Mhor." "Oh, well," said Jean, "of course they would come _first_, but, oh, I would do such a lot of things! I'd find out where money was most needed and drop it on the people anonymously so that they wouldn't be bothered about thanking anyone. I would creep about like a beneficent Puck and take worried frowns away, and straighten out things for tired people, and, above all, I'd make children smile. There's no fun or satisfaction got from giving big sums to hospitals and things--that's all right for when you're dead. |