“Well, Henry, it all comes to much the same thing,” said Mrs. Morland. “Your father was nominated because his tutor knew a Minister and Tony got in top of the list because the woman who interviewed him knew George Knox. But I daresay it all comes to the same in the end.”
Mr. Birkett said with a kind of grim deference that Laura had a remarkable gift for seeing facts as facts.
“Oh, do you think so?” said Mrs. Morland blushing, for in spite of her successful books she continued to have no opinion of herself whatsoever. “I expect it’s only that I talk aloud inside myself a great deal about things and I’m always writing them in my head, so I suppose I have to know what I’m thinking about. Not that I mean that in the least,” she added, nervously pushing a tortoiseshell pin back into her unfas
