Brough. "People are only too willing to be encouraged in their vanities. I don't think, Miriam, that you were really very good for a person's character.
"
"I was not very good for my own," Miriam went on, grimly. "I retrograded. I can see it now.
In playing on the follies and faults of others, I grew less careful-less critical myself. Then the family lost its money. Oh, I haven't the poor excuse that I was in want-that what I did was done from any lack of anything essential for myself or others.
Ours was just a commonplace, undramatic loss-with only need for saving and retrenchment. Without the deprivation of a single necessity, or comfort, even. Merely the absence of the luxuries.
The luxuries, though, in a way, had become necessities to me-and-I found, by exercising my power, I could get much that I wished. I flattered and cajoled to please people, so that they would do things for me, give me things. That is ended--"
She pointed dramatically to a table.
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