"You seem to have done well for yourself, Mirah? _You_ are in no want, I see," said the father, looking at her with emphatic examination.
"Good friends who found me in distress have helped me to get work," said Mirah, hardly knowing what she actually said, from being occupied with what she would presently have to say. "I give lessons. I have sung in private houses. I have just been singing at a private concert." She paused, and then added, with significance, "I have very good friends, who know all about me."

"You seem to have done well for yourself, Mirah? You are in no want, I see," he said.
"Good friends who found me in distress have helped me to get work," said Mirah, "I give lessons. I have just been singing at a private concert." She paused, and then added, with significance, "I have very good friends, who know all about me."
