Marjorie had heard the other LPNs at the nursing home where Esther worked talk like this.

When the unfortunate Queen would have sacrificed her jewels to liquidate the claims which pressed the most heavily upon her, she found the measure impossible, lest the King should redemand them as the property of the Crown; and she consequently soon saw herself reduced to the undignified expedient of subsisting upon the generosity of the powers from whom she had sought protection.

Hey! Quit picking on your brother.

The bhaktas send parcelfuls of various eatables from Calcutta as offerings.