“Perhaps I did shove myself in where it wasn’t my business, wasn’t my fight, because my parents wouldn’t lift a finger for other people. Oh, they were great philanthropists. But they wouldn’t give a beggar on the street a single penny if nobody was around to see them do it.” “And you would,” said Violet. Of course Maud would. She’d probably start a petition on the spot for more shelter houses too. “Mrs. Sinclair says you look at the world and decide you can live with it or decide you can’t. And if you can’t, you decide what you’re prepared to do about it.”
