"Very well," said Gwendolen, arranging her hat fastidiously, "then you will please to consider that you are half happy, which is more than I am used to seeing you." With the last words she again turned with her old playful smile to her mother. "Now I am ready; but oh, mamma, Mr. Grandcourt gives me a quantity of money, and expects me to spend it, and I can't spend it; and you know I can't bear charity children and all that; and here are thirty pounds. I wish the girls would spend it for me on little things for themselves when you go to the new house. Tell them so." Gwendolen put the notes into her mother's hands and looked away hastily, moving toward the door.
"God bless you, dear," said Mrs. Davilow. "It will please them so that you should have thought of them in particular."

"Very well," said Gwendolen, arranging her hat, "then please consider yourself half happy, which is more than I am used to seeing you." She turned with her old playful smile to her mother. "Oh, mamma, Mr. Grandcourt gives me a quantity of money, and expects me to spend it, and I can't; so here are thirty pounds. I wish the girls would spend it on little things for themselves when you go to the new house. Tell them so." Gwendolen put the notes into her mother's hands and moved hastily toward the door.
"God bless you, dear," said Mrs. Davilow. "It will please them so that you should have thought of them."
